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Attitude to Substance Abuse: Do Personality and Socio-Demographic Factors Matter?

BACKGROUND: Substance abuse is a serious global problem that is affected by multiple psychosocial and socio-demographic factors. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the leading factors in positive attitude and tendency toward substance abuse in terms of personality, socio-economic, and socio...

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Autores principales: Rahimian Boogar, Isaac, Tabatabaee, Sayed Mosa, Tosi, Jalileh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kowsar 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25593892
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.16712
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Tabatabaee, Sayed Mosa
Tosi, Jalileh
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description BACKGROUND: Substance abuse is a serious global problem that is affected by multiple psychosocial and socio-demographic factors. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the leading factors in positive attitude and tendency toward substance abuse in terms of personality, socio-economic, and socio-demographic factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, 200 college students (105 females and 95 males) residing in Damghan University dormitory in northeast of Iran were recruited by random sampling from March to July 2013. The participants were instructed and asked to complete the NEO FIVE-factor Inventory, the attitude to substance abuse scale, and the demographic questionnaire. Then data were analyzed by stepwise multiple regression employing PASW 18. RESULTS: Being male sex and neuroticism had a significant positive role in predicting positive attitude toward substance abuse in university students. In addition, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and socio-economic status had a significant negative role in predicting tendency toward substance abuse (P < 0.001). Extraversion had no significant role in prediction of positive attitude to substance abuse (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Lower agreeableness, decreased conscientiousness, higher neuroticism, diminished openness, low socio-economic status, and male sex might make university students more inclined to substance abuse. Thus, it is reasonable to show the importance of these factors in tailored prevention programs.
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spelling pubmed-42869192015-01-15 Attitude to Substance Abuse: Do Personality and Socio-Demographic Factors Matter? Rahimian Boogar, Isaac Tabatabaee, Sayed Mosa Tosi, Jalileh Int J High Risk Behav Addict Research Article BACKGROUND: Substance abuse is a serious global problem that is affected by multiple psychosocial and socio-demographic factors. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the leading factors in positive attitude and tendency toward substance abuse in terms of personality, socio-economic, and socio-demographic factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, 200 college students (105 females and 95 males) residing in Damghan University dormitory in northeast of Iran were recruited by random sampling from March to July 2013. The participants were instructed and asked to complete the NEO FIVE-factor Inventory, the attitude to substance abuse scale, and the demographic questionnaire. Then data were analyzed by stepwise multiple regression employing PASW 18. RESULTS: Being male sex and neuroticism had a significant positive role in predicting positive attitude toward substance abuse in university students. In addition, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, and socio-economic status had a significant negative role in predicting tendency toward substance abuse (P < 0.001). Extraversion had no significant role in prediction of positive attitude to substance abuse (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Lower agreeableness, decreased conscientiousness, higher neuroticism, diminished openness, low socio-economic status, and male sex might make university students more inclined to substance abuse. Thus, it is reasonable to show the importance of these factors in tailored prevention programs. Kowsar 2014-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4286919/ /pubmed/25593892 http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.16712 Text en Copyright © 2014, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tosi, Jalileh
Attitude to Substance Abuse: Do Personality and Socio-Demographic Factors Matter?
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title_short Attitude to Substance Abuse: Do Personality and Socio-Demographic Factors Matter?
title_sort attitude to substance abuse: do personality and socio-demographic factors matter?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25593892
http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.16712
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