Personality factors of adolescents – consumers of legal psychoactive substances – nicotine cigarettes

Jančovičová, H. – Ritomský, A. – Heretik, A.

In connection with the growth of consumer behaviour of adolescents, particularly with their excessive drinking of alcohol and smoking nicotine cigarettes in recent years, we wanted to explain the factors having influence on consumer behaviour of adolescents, especially consumption of legal psychoactive substances. In present study we monitored predictable individual personality predispositions for the consumption of nicotine cigarettes. We found that high-level extroversion, neuroticism, inclination to lie, addictivity, criminality, adventurity, and anomy were predictors of smoking cigarettes.

Key words: adolescents – smoking cigarettes – extroversion – neuroticism – psychoticizms – inclination to lie – addictivity – criminality – adventurity – impulsivity – empathy – anomy