Predicting the Reduction of Craving for Drug use based on Resilience and Self- Control in Men Referring to Addiction Treatment Centers in Rasht

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Fatemeh Sohrabzadeh ¹ (M.A, Department of Clinical Psychology, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran)
Zeynab Abbasi ² (M.A Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2023-02-27 Accepted : 2023-05-02 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: resilience, Self-Control, Craving for Drug Use, Addiction Treatment Centers,

Abstract :

  The research was conducted with the aim of predicting the reduction of drug cravings based on resilience and self-control in men referred to addiction treatment centers. The type of research was descriptive and its method was correlation. The statistical population included all men who referred to addiction treatment centers in Rasht city in the first half of 1401 in the number of 212 people, of which 136 people were selected by simple random sampling. Franken et al.'s (2006) Craving for Drug use, Connor and Davidson's resilience (2003) and Tanji et al.'s (2014) self-control questionnaires were used to collect data. The data were analyzed using the inferential test of Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression and SPSS24 software. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between resilience and reducing drug cravings (P<0.01). There is a significant correlation between self-control and the reduction of drug craving (P<0.01). According to the findings of the research, it can be concluded that resilience and self-control are suitable predictors for the reduction of drug craving among men.