Factor analysis of the personal characteristics of individuals of the addictive risk group

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of early diagnosis of the use of psychoactive substances in the child and adolescent environment, as well as the study of individual and personal characteristics of individuals at addictive risk. On the basis of the conducted research, the authors carried out a factor analysis of the personal characteristics of individuals of the addictive risk group, based on the use of the psychodiagnostic questionnaire PDO «Narcorisk» (Syrkin et al., 2016) together with a teenage version of the 16-factor Ketell questionnaire and a standardized multifactor method modified for adolescents personality studies (SMIL L. Sobchik). It is assumed that there are correlations between the risk profiles of persons prone to the use of psychoactive substances and their individual and personal characteristics, consideration of which makes it possible to personalize preventive work. The authors note that the factor analysis of the obtained results makes it possible to identify characteristic features of the studied personality profiles. Thus, the abusive personality profile is characterized by: openness, subordination, credulity, conformity, pessimism and anxiety, as well as disorganization and lack of individuality. The hedonistic personality profile correlated with such indicators as openness, emotional stability, courage, tension, impulsivity, individuality, optimism, impracticality and insubordination. The antisocial personality profile is characterized by emotional instability, insubordination, intemperance, rigidity, straightforwardness, anxiety, tension, low self-control, impulsivity, rigidity and social introversion. The conformal personality profile is characterized by: subordination, credulity, practicality, anxiety, conservatism, conformity, self-control, tension, neurotic overcontrol, pessimism and rigidity. The cognitive-destructive personality profile is represented by such characteristics as: reduced intelligence, subordination, conformity and rigidity.
 The results obtained allow practitioners in the field of psychology and pedagogy of dependent behavior to better understand the nature of the formation of the risk profile of adolescents prone to the use of psychoactive substances, provide them with targeted preventive care, develop and adjust the content of preventive measures, predict behavioral strategies, build an individual preventive route taking into account their individual and personal characteristics.