Attitude to Alcohol as Predominantly Nonlinear Psychological Process

• Published in: Journal of pharmaceutical sciences and research 2018-11, Vol.10 (11), p.3001-3004
• Main Authors: Basimov, M M, Semenov, D V, Varfolomeeva, N S, Belyakova, N V, Blinov, A O, Kovaleva, M A, Romanova, A V, Shcheglova, A S
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Alcoholism; Biology; Contemporary problems; Dissertations & theses; Hypertension; Metabolic syndrome; Motivation; Pedagogy; Psychologists; Psychology of learning; Quantitative psychology; Sociology; Studies
• ISSN: 0975-1459

Values on "The scale of meaning in life search" ("Search") achieve maximum for the medium level on the parameter "General motivation for alcohol use" (comparative weights = +513). [...]the initial increase (transition from low to medium level) of general motivation of alcohol use promotes abrupt rise (from -98 to +513) on "The scale of meaning in life search" ("Search"). [...]increase of general motivation of alcohol use (from medium to high level) leads to the reverse effect (from +513 to -161) and the search of meaning in life appears to be lost diminishing to values even lower than the initial ones. [...]the search of meaning in life in people suffering from alcoholism is not possible without moderate general motivation of alcohol use (mean level within their sample frame). [...]growth of the parameter "Subscale of action" (from medium to high) gives an opposite effect, and addictive motives increase significantly (from -556 to +356), at that, to values that are considerably higher than the original ones. [...]the process of development of action that demonstrates the level of expression of the successful performance feeling, gives a positive effect only at the initial stage in people suffering from alcoholism: subjective fixation on alcohol as well as perception of it as a sedative significantly and quickly decreases. [...]growth of meaning in life search (from medium to high) gives an opposite effect, and motives of selfinjury increase significantly (from -491 to +119) to values close to the original ones. [...]the process of meaning in life search gives a positive effect only at the initial stage in people suffering from alcoholism: motives of self-injury -alcohol use contrary to everybody and themselves demonstrate sharp decrease.