Objectives of the study:
To study the comparative role of parents attitudes towards drug addiction of addicts and non addicts.
To study the comparative childhood behavior disorder patterns of addicts and non addicts.
To study the drug experimentation among adolescents who have or do not have family history of drug addiction.
To study the relationship of drug dependency traits with different categories of drug addicts.
To identify the personality dynamics of the drug abusers.
To study the personality factors which may be a precursor to susceptibility of drug addiction.
To study the potential familial environment out of relationship dimension, personal growth dimension and system maintenance dimension responsible to promote susceptible adolescents to drug practice.
To introduce intervention techniques on vulnerable personality characteristics of normal adolescents and record the change through repeated measures.
A sample size of 23 senior secondary school boys with precipitative personality components, family environments and pathological make up were considered out of the control group of 200 who were investigated in the first phase for comparative study with drug addicts.
Personality data schedule
Family Environment Scale
Somatic Inkblot Series
Eight state Questionnaire
Emotional Maturity Scale
Method of Research
Frequency count, Mean, Standard Deviation, Anova, Multiple correlation
Pressure of peer group for drug taking was the main cause of addiction found in opioids and non opioids.
The result obtained from FES revealed that drug addicts were having unhealthy family environments than the normal counterparts.
The result drawn from SIS, the projective technique opioid and non opioid addicts both projected pathological personality components regarding the body imagery.
Results obtained from ESQ gave the idea that addicts of both the clinical groups and cocaine addicts had shown a very typical mood states like less of arousal and extra version with high stressful and depressive mood.
After the completion of intervention programme, 21 out of 23 subjects were reported distinctly lower pathological personality components and improved behavior pattern.
Keyword(s): Drug Abuse, Male Adolescent