Personnalité et profils addictifs : étude des consommations de substances et des pratiques comportementales addictives en population étudiante

With regard to the characteristics of second profile students involved in sports, these results clearly highlight the importance of physical activity when trying to prevent substance misuse and the emergence of dependence symptoms. Consequently, the role of specific psychological therapies based on encouraging physical activity should be considered in future longitudinal studies on college students or on clinical samples of people suffering from addiction. However, it remains difficult to determine if this therapeutic treatment is useful in the case of third profile students who are characterized by the addictive use of the Internet and high scores of neuroticism. Finally, from a clinical and theoretical point of view, this paper suggests that scientific studies on addiction should not only focus on a specific practice or substance use but simultaneously consider the different kinds of addictive behaviors that might appear amongst college students. Any such studies will have to take into account the existence of an addictive continuum (from the absence of addictive behaviors to the presence of severe symptoms of addiction) in order to clearly identify groups that may be considered as presenting risk factors related to the emergence of dependence symptoms.