بررسي خصوصيات شخصيتي معتادان به موادمخدر در مركز بازپروري زاهدان

Study of personality traits among opiate addicts in rehabilitation center in Zahedan

Individuals with psycho personality characteristics such as low tolerance , hopelessness, antisocial behaviors, inferiority complex, dependence, sever anxiety and so on have a good background for addiction. This survey was performed to determine characteristic personality of addicts in Zahedan rehabilitation center. In this study 132 individuals from rehabilitation center were tested by filling a questionnaire during a clinical interview and for evaluating its scientific validity, content and prediction validity methods were used and its scientific reliability was verified during a, test-retest procedure. Data analysis was done by descriptive and analytical statistics. On the basis of this research, most of the opiate addicts had 18-25 years old and had not finished high school, whose addictions started in early age. In this study , 88% of participants had more than one time of withdrawn from addiction and 40.9% had a psychiatric visit and 12% had previous history of hospitalization in psychiatric wards. Reffering to present results, the most prevalent traits were borderline personality, narcosistic and antisocial personality, respectively. In tested persons 47.4% had all three kinds of above mentioned traits and 9% had none of them.