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Imran Khan ¹, Showkat Ahmed Shah ²

Affiliations
1 Psychologist at Drug De-addiction Centre and Stress Management Helpline, Police Control Room Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, IN
2 Department of Psychology University of Kashmir Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, IN

Abstract

The present study compared substance dependents who go for de-addiction with those who don't go for de-addiction on the basis of subjective wellbeing. The sample consists of (N=100) drug addict males taken from district Srinagar. One group of subjects (N=50) include those drug addicts who were attending drug de-addiction centers. Another group of drug addicts (N=50), taken from different areas of district Srinagar include those drug addicts who don't go for drug de-addiction. Alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test was first used to screen the individuals for substance dependence and then Subjective Wellbeing Inventory by Nagpal and Sell (1992) was used to assess the subjective wellbeing of the participants. The results in this study showed that t-values of the two factors of the subjective wellbeing, i.e., confidence in coping (t=2.402*) and perceived ill health (t=2.096*) were found significant beyond 0.05 levels of significance. However the t-values of the all other factors like General wellbeing positive affect (t=0.853), Expectation achievement congruence (t=0.977), Transcendence (t=0.073), Family group support (t=0.000), social support (t=0.922) Primary group concern (t=1.922), Inadequate mental mastery (t=0.826), Deficiency in social contacts (t=1.034) and general wellbeing negative affect (t=1.006) were found as insignificant even at 0.05 level of significance.

Keywords

Substance Dependence, Drug Addiction.

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Imran Khan ¹, Showkat Ahmed Shah ²

Affiliations
1 Drug De-Addiction Center and Stress Management Helpline, Police Control Room, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN
2 Department of Psychology, University of Kashmir Hazaratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IN

Abstract

The present study investigates the personality dimensions of substance dependents and the correlation of personality dimensions (extraversion and neuroticism) with substance dependence. The sample consists of (N=150) substance dependent males taken from different drug de-addiction centers and various areas in district Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir). Alcohol smoking and substance involvement screening test (ASSIST 2010) was first used to screen the individuals for substance dependence and to assess their substance dependence and then modified version of Eysenck's Maudsley's Personality Inventory (MPI 1959) by Jalota and Kapoor was used to assess the personality dimensions of the participants. The results in this study showed that the majority of the sample group (50.7%) score high on neuroticism dimension of personality however majority of the sample group (70.0%) score average on extraversion dimension of personality. Further, significant positive correlation was found between neuroticism and substance dependence (P≤0.01, r=0.269**). However, negative insignificant correlation was found between extraversion and substance dependence. These results were found consistent with previous research.

Keywords

Drug Addiction, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Personality, Substance Dependence.

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