Features of the Structure of Addictive Identity in Adolescence

Abstract

The relevance of the study of this problem is due to the lack of reliable information about
the psychological mechanisms, phenomenology and psychological structure of addictive
behavior of a personality in adolescence, which is the main cause of insufficient
effectiveness for implementation of corrective measures. In this regard, this article aims to
study addictive identity structure in the chemical (alcohol and drug) addiction both at the
level of structural components of identity in adolescence and that of their structural
organization. The leading methods of the problem study are the empirical methods of
studying the structural components of addictive identity. The experiment involved 96
young men at the age of 18-24 years old. Of them 55 people are with alcohol
dependence, 41 people with drug (opioid) addiction. The study found that addictive
identity of young persons with chemical dependence (alcohol and drug) at the level of
structural components is characterized by simple undifferentiated cognitive constructs
meaningfully related to the object of addiction; flattened motivational profile, as well as a
discrepancy at the level of the valuable component of identity. Identified in the study
features allow to state that at the level of structural organization an addictive identity of
young persons, both at alcohol and drug dependence, is characterized by disintegrated
structural organization of identity. Clinical and psychological diagnosis of addictive
identity structure with alcohol and drug addiction should be viewed as prognostic basis in
the process of socio-psychological rehabilitation of young men with chemical addiction.
The identified structural features of addictive identity serve as predictors in determining
the risk groups by the given deviant status