Identity status and drug abuse in university students

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

S. Abdolvahab Samavi ¹ , M. Hosseinchari ²

1 - M. A. in Educational Psychology
2 - PhD Shiraz University

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2009-06-22

Keywords: Ego identity status, drug abuse, university students,

Abstract :

The present study aimed to predict drug abuse on the basis of identity status. 160 male students of Iran Islamic Azad University, branch of Bandar Abbas completed the Persian version of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Survey Questionnaire (Oetting & Beauvaise, 1987) and the Revised Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (Bennion & Adams, 1986) included foreclosed, diffused, achieved and moratorium identities. Multiple regression analyses indicated that the foreclosed and diffused identities were positive predictors of drug abuse. However, the achieved and moratorium identities did not predict drug abuse.