Comparing Stress Management Strategies and Impulsivity in Opioids, Moderators, and Stimulant Abusers

• Main Authors: Yousef Aazami, sohaila shaii arani, Mohammad Jalalvand, Raheleh Siah Kamari, Ahmad Borjali
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2017-10-01
• Series: Muṭāli̒āt-i Ravān/Shināsī-i Bālīnī
• Subjects: Stress management; impulsivity; drug users
• Online Access: http://jcps.atu.ac.ir/article_8153_423bb439fe7f34b67b3c5e6334b7b11f.pdf

The present study is aimed at dealing with stress management strategies and impulsivity in opiate abusers, sedative and stimulus is conducted. In the study, a causal-comparative method was adopted. Research participants included 180 drug users inhabiting the already determined addiction centers in Shiraz. They were selected using Available random sampling. To collect the data, stress management strategies and impulsivity scales were employed, and to analyze the results, descriptive statistical methods and variance analysis were used. The results indicated that abuse stimulating consumers significantly more than consumers emotion-centered use of opioids and moderator of coping strategies virgin (0.007), but abusers response-moderator (0.26) and opioids - moderator (0.43) were not significantly different. As well as the construction abusers significantly greater impulsivity as compared to the stimulus (0.012) and opioids (0.005) showed, but stimulants and opioids two groups had no significant differences in impulsivity variables (0.94). It can be said that the research is based on the type of substance, in terms of coping with stress and control of their impulsivity, of consumers stimulants other than using virgin materials more negatively of coping with stress and drug abuse-moderator of impulsivity than other people are experiencing abuse.