What do think about people with addictive personalities?
Research has shown that there is no such thing as an addictive personality, because addiction is found across all major personality classification systems (e.g., Five Factor Model). Many people say they have an “addictive personality”, but what they are really saying is that there is a significant part of their life that engages in excessive behavior across many objects of addiction. Where personality does play a role, is that different personality types appear to moderate and mediate (in statistical terms) different paths of addiction. Bottom line, you don’t have an addictive personality.
