Abstract

TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN STIMULANT AND OPIATE ADDICTS

Forough Riahi, Ashraf Tashakori, Ali Nazari Nezhad*, Mohamad Sadegh Nazari

Abstract

Objectives: Temperament, character and psychiatric disorders in stimulant and opiate addicts were the aim of this research. Method: In this descriptive- post event research, 60 persons were thought out by two questionnaires (30 opiate addicts and 30 stimulant addicts): TCI questionnaire and SCL-90-R questionnaire. Results: Opiate and stimulant addicts had difference in some aspects (subscale harm avoidance; reward dependence; co- operation; self- transcendence; somatization; aggressiveness; paranoia; psychosis) and in some aspects, no difference between them was observed (subscale novelty seeking; persistence; self-directiveness; obsessive- compulsive; interpersonal sensitivity; depression; anxiety; phobia), and also there was a significant positive correlation between novelty seeking and anxiety; harm avoidance and somatization; reward dependence and somatization; self- transcendence and anxiety; self- transcendence and aggressiveness; selftranscendence and psychosis. There was a significant negative correlation between harm avoidance and aggressiveness; harm avoidance and psychosis; co- operation and phobia. Conclusions: Findings showed that the violence of psychiatric disorders in stimulant addicts is more. As this research is the first study in the ground work of scrutiny of addicts’

Keywords: personality traits, for this reason, comparison of this data with available findings in the research literature is impossible and must only analyze them in the framework of the study.