Social and psychological aspects of adolescents’ propensity for an addictive behaviour

Abstract

Addictive behaviour is a kind of deviant behaviour. Addictive behaviour is understood as a dependent behaviour, which forms the intention of departing from the reality. As a result it can be said that the researched teenagers (the students of the 8th-9th forms) are mostly addicted to alcohol. Alcoholism is a chronic disease, which is characterized by the addiction to alcohol and gradual personality degradation. First of all, social prevention must be done among the adolescents at the information level. It is important to show the consequences of drinking alcohol. The effective form of working with the teenagers is trainings of self-confidence formation and ability to find out the way out from stress situations. Lecturing for parents and teachers.