Personality Type and Drug Abuse Among Iranian Young Adults: A Comparative Study



Mousaviraja A¹ ; Nasirzadeh M² ; Mirzaei Alavijeh M³ ; Aligol M² ; Mahboubi M⁴ ; Eslami AA⁵ Show Affiliations
Source: Life Science Journal Published:2014

Abstract

Nowadays it's more important; changing in youth tendency of traditional drugs such as opium to the designer drugs such as methamphetamine (Crystal) and early starting in early adolescence. The present study performed with aim to determine and compare of personality type in dependent and nondependent youth to designer drugs, and its relation to use and avoiding of designer drugs. This research was a cross-sectional study that performed among two groups youth of five areas in Isfahan city include; 183 dependent to designer drugs that referred to withdrawal camps and 207 nondependent designer drugs referred to Community level, should they have inclusion Criteria. The sample included 390 urban Isfahan Youth (The age range 18-29 years), who completed the self-report questionnaires of personal information and Rathus personality type. We used Chi-square test to analyze the hypothesis. Of total participants; 32.1% married, 64.6% single and 3.3% were divorced. 14.1% of brothers, 12.6% of fathers, 0.5% of mothers of participants had a history of drug abuse. Significantly personality type of the majority on dependent group (60.7%) was type A, and the majority of nondependent group (67.6%) was type B. According to the relationship of personality type A and drug abuse, we can prevent of drug dependence by education about modification inappropriate behavior patterns in these persons.