Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between neurotic tendency, internalized shame and alcohol addiction, and to test whether internalized shame mediates the relationship between neurotic tendency and alcohol addiction. This study showed that neurotic tendency had a significant effect on internalized shame and alcohol addiction, and internalized shame was mediated by the relationship between neurotic tendency and alcohol addiction. The main results were as follows: First, the neurotic tendency was statistically predicting alcoholism. The higher the neurotic tendency of personality traits, the more the alcoholic addiction was affected. Second, as a result of examining the predictive relationship of neurotic tendency to internalized shame, the higher the neurotic tendency, the more internalized emotions are experienced and the more negative emotions are experienced. Third, the neurotic tendency showed significant influence on alcohol addiction, and neurotic tendency was found to be a mediating role of internalized shame in predicting alcohol addiction. The higher the neurotic tendency of individual personality characteristics, the higher the internalized tendency to internalize the shame. This internalized shame leads to the use of pathological alcohol, leading to alcoholism. As a result, the prevention and treatment of alcoholism requires an understanding of neurotic tendencies classified as fundamental personality traits and efforts to develop treatment and recovery programs related to internalized shame, which are pathologically fixed emotional responses.