Tkach B. Individual psychological and neuropsychological traits of young people with addictive behavior

The psychodiagnostic research has shown that young people, who occasionally took alcohol and smoked, tended: to be excessively social environment-oriented; to demonstrate the non-conformity in interpersonal relations; to display aggravation of dominant, aggressive and independent features of behavior along with partial awareness of their own disjunctive and non-conforming tendencies; to express more forcefully the accentuations of character; to have the destructive aggression dominate over the constructive aggression; to expose lower level of behavior control, the low level of empathy and to approve the aggressive behavior in general; to have the external locus of control prevailing; to exhibit the disbalance between the basic opposed tendencies, and to have problems with personal development.