Introduction: Leaving treatment process during drug abuse treatment has been always one of the main problems, and access to effective methods to keep clients until the end of the treatment process is one of the important treatment goals of this field. The purpose of this study is to investigate the personality traits of drug abusers as an effective factor in following up the treatment, completing the treatment period or giving up the treatment procedure.
Method: The sample included 200 methamphetamine abusers (100 men and 100 women) aged 0-40 under rehabilitation treatment who were selected by convenience sampling. The length of the treatment was 28 days (4 weeks) and treatment adherence was to complete the process of the therapy. Personality traits were measured by Cloninger's Treatment and Character Inventory in the dimension of treatment and character. Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Results: The finding showed that participants who completed their treatment period had high scores in harm avoidance and persistence dimension and those who failed to complete the treatment period had high scores in novelty seeking dimension.
Discussion and Conclusion: The finding showed that participants who completed their treatment period had high scores in harm avoidance and persistence dimension and those who failed to complete the treatment period had high scores in novelty seeking dimension.
Siahjani, L., Oraki, M., & Zare, H. (2020). Personality traits difference between client with completing and uncompleted rehabilitation treatment process. Clinical Psychology and Personality, 14(1), 71-79. doi: 10.22070/14.1.71
MLA
Lily Siahjani; Mohammad Oraki; Hossein Zare. "Personality traits difference between client with completing and uncompleted rehabilitation treatment process". Clinical Psychology and Personality, 14, 1, 2020, 71-79. doi: 10.22070/14.1.71
HARVARD
Siahjani, L., Oraki, M., Zare, H. (2020). 'Personality traits difference between client with completing and uncompleted rehabilitation treatment process', Clinical Psychology and Personality, 14(1), pp. 71-79. doi: 10.22070/14.1.71
VANCOUVER
Siahjani, L., Oraki, M., Zare, H. Personality traits difference between client with completing and uncompleted rehabilitation treatment process. Clinical Psychology and Personality, 2020; 14(1): 71-79. doi: 10.22070/14.1.71
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