Davies, John B. and Heim, Derek and Cheyne, Bill and Smallwood, Jonathan (2001) Addiction as a functional representation. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 11 (1). pp. 57-62. ISSN 1052-9284
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This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students (n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii) perceived as a problem to society. The pattern of results fitted a functional model of the addiction concept rather than an attempt to describe an objective state.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 1683 |
| Keywords: | addiction, drugs, social representations, social construction, theories of addiction, Psychology |
| Subjects: | Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Psychology |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > Psychology Unknown Department |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2007 |
| Last modified: | 02 May 2012 16:03 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/1683 |
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