Assessment of cognitive emotional dementions of personality and compaparison of psychological of prfile of individual with methamphetamine induce psychosis with normal subjects

Abstract

Background: One of the most important discussion in the field of drug dependence and drug abuse is the occurrence of cognitive-emotional processes in the victims of drug abusers. This is because the chronic use of drugs leads to long-term destruction on the functioning of the brain. In fact, addiction to drugs is considered as a complicated mental processes which involves emotional, cognitive and biological factors. Aims: The present was carried to evaluate different dimension of cognitive-emotional aspects of personality based on Cloninger’s theory in methamphetamine users and comparing it with normal individuals. Method: current study is an causaul comparative research. Fifty methamphetamine users who referred themselves to drug clinics for treatment, in addition to 50 normal subjects were selected as participants selected in available sampling method. Results: Data analysis involving multiple analysis variance as well as regression analysis for all scales of personality questionnaire. Conclusions: Also, there was ashown that the scores for all scales of personality questionnaire were high except for the scale of persistence and psychological profile of the addicts showed that their psychological health was worse than that of the normal group. Furthermore, within the addict group all psychological profiles were high which requires close attention of research clinicians.

Keywords

• novelty seeking
• harm avoidance
• reward dependence
• persistence
• self-transcendence
• cooperation and self-directedness