Personality Profiles of Drug Addicts and Non-addicts

By : Deepti Randhawa

Page No: 407-416

Abstract
The present investigation is an attempt to examine the differences between drug addicts and non-addicts with respect to their personality structure. A purposive and incidental sample of 250 male subjects (125 addicts and 125 non-addicts) participated in the study. The NEOPI-R (Costa & Mc Crae,1985) and the personal information schedule was administered on the sample. The results obtained through comparison of means and discriminant analysis clearly reveal significant differences in the personality profiles of the two groups. The comparison of means suggest that impulsiveness, emotional instability, vulnerability, angry-hostility and excitementseeking are some of the defining personality characteristics of drug addicts. Nonaddicts on the other hand are more sociable, agreeable and conscientious. Discriminant analysis further supports the above results and clearly classifies the two groups on the basis of discriminant coefficients obtained on the personality scale.

Author :
Deepti Randhawa : Ph.D in Psychology — 40, The Mall, Amritsar, 143001.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2018.13.02.15