Mohammad Oruki; Seyyedeh Masoumeh Hosseininez Rezaei
Volume 1, Issue 1 , June 2013, , Pages 23-33
Abstract
Aims: Addiction is a physical and mental disease, which because of its progressive nature endangers the health of individual and community in all aspects of life. This study aimed at comparing the personality characteristics and mental health of improved addicted individuals and drug addict`s ...
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Aims: Addiction is a physical and mental disease, which because of its progressive nature endangers the health of individual and community in all aspects of life. This study aimed at comparing the personality characteristics and mental health of improved addicted individuals and drug addict`s relapse in narcotic abuse. Method: It was an Ex Post Facto (Causal-Comparative) research and its statistical community comprised of 100 addicted individuals who had returned to the addiction withdrawal centers of Welfare Organization and also 100 improved individuals. The study took place during 4 months from July to October 2011. The Temperament and Character Inventory, Cloninger TCI (1991) questionnaire, was used for evaluating personality traits and the Psychological health questionnaire SCL-90-R (Derogatis; 1976) was used for evaluating Psychological health of people. Results and conclusion: The results showed a meaningful diffrence between mental health of improved addicted individuals and drug addict`s relapse in narcotic abuse. Also, the results showed that from among mental health factors, some factors such as hypochondriasis, depression, obsession (p
