Atencio de Oliveira, Anabella (2025) The Role of the Beliefs Regarding the Causes of Addiction on the Perceived Ability to Recover from Addiction and the Moderating Effect of Social Identity. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Drug addiction is an especially troublesome issue since it affects the quality of life of approximately 295 million people worldwide. When it comes to underlying causes of addiction, two pervade the literature on this topic: the physiological and psychological perspectives. This study examines the hypotheses that an addict's beliefs about the roots of their addiction influence their perceived ability to recover and that social identity moderates this relationship. In order to test these hypotheses, a cross-sectional correlational study was performed on the data obtained from a self-report questionnaire. The results obtained showed a significant association between the belief in the physiological cause of addiction and a low perceived ability to recover. In contrast, no significant relationship was found between the belief in the psychological cause of addiction and a high perceived ability to recover. Additionally, no significant moderating effect of social identity was observed on the relationship between addiction beliefs and perceived recovery ability. Although the study hypothesized a significant relationship between beliefs about addiction and perceived recovery ability and social identity as exerting a moderating effect, the results were nonsignificant. Therefore, these findings suggest that either there is no relationship between these variables studied or that the effect is not strong enough to be detected by our current data. Keywords: Addiction, psychological beliefs, physiological beliefs, ability to recover, social identity, recovery identity, addicted identity.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Manchev, M.N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2025 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2025 10:56 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4712 |
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