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标题：Predictors of substance abuse among risky drivers: The role of personality characteristics and mental health
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作者：Nasrin Abdoli ; Vahid Farnia ; Safora Salemi 等
期刊名称：Journal of Education and Health Promotion
印刷版ISSN：2277-9531
出版年度：2018
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：163-163
DOI：10.4103/jehp.jehp_153_17
出版社：Medknow Publications
摘要：BACKGROUND: Regarding the high prevalence of substance abuse and its serious complications, the necessity of assessing factors assuming to make tendency toward substance abuse is justifiable. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The statistical population consisted of all car drivers referred to traffic department in 2015 in Kermanshah. In this descriptive study of correlation type, 846 risky drivers from referrals to traffic department were randomly selected. Data were analyzed through NEO personality inventory, general health questionnaire, and discriminant analysis. RESULTS: Discriminant analysis was used to analyze data. Standard coefficients of discriminant function revealed that depression, social functionality, physical symptoms, neurosis, and anxiety symptoms were of the highest role in discriminant function while agreeableness and conscientiousness had the least role in discriminant function and its success. The discriminant analysis also showed that linear combination of above variables is able to explain about 75.5% of variance of difference between two groups ( P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: Regarding the results of this study, it is proposed that the role of personality characteristics as well as mental health in tendency toward substance abuse could be appreciated and included in preventive and treatment programs held for people with methamphetamine abuse.
关键词：Mental health; personality characteristics; substance abuse