THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION OF PERSONALITY PREDICTORS OF THE TENDENCY TO USE PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN ADOLESCENTS
THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION OF PERSONALITY PREDICTORS OF THE TENDENCY TO USE PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN ADOLESCENTS

Summary/Abstract: The risk of youth developing substance abuse is a significant problem in the modern world. The growing number of addicts is a concern for specialists in various fields, such as psychology, pedagogy, sociology, economics, and medicine. Modern scientific research is aimed not only at studying the practical results of working directly with addiction and dependent individuals, but also at preventing addiction, studying the propensities and motivations for substance use, and developing measures for the rehabilitation and resocialization of young people with different experiences with psychoactive substances. This article presents a theoretical analysis of the age-related characteristics of adolescents and the differentiation of the concepts of "propensity" and "dependence" in the context of psychoactive substance use. In this study, the authors consider the propensity to use psychoactive substances as a psychological tendency toward the development of a pathological craving for psychoactive substance use, conditioned by a number of external (social) and internal (genetic, biological, and psychological) individual-personality characteristics. Based on a theoretical analysis, the authors of this article present a four-level model of propensity to use psychoactive substances in adolescents. The central core of the model is the individual-personality predictors of propensity to use psychoactive substances, expressed through cognitive-motivational, emotional-frustrational, and behavioral components. The theoretical substantiation of these components allows for the selection of diagnostic methods, diagnosis, and, based on the level of propensity to use psychoactive substances, the identification of at-risk groups of adolescents with specific individual-personality manifestations of propensity to use psychoactive substances. Further, diagnostics and analysis of empirical results will enable the development of a set of preventive and rehabilitative measures for various levels of risk groups, aimed at the early detection of propensity to use psychoactive substances in adolescents.

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