Relationship between attachment styles and initial maladaptation schemas with the social utility of leaving addicts

Background & Nowadays, the drug crisis is one of the major global crises, and researchers in the field of psychology have been focusing on the causes and treatment of drug addicts. About this behavior, there are several titles that one of these titles is social utility. Social utility is how to interact with people in different emotional situations and use this indicator to create a productive relationship with them. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and initial maladaptive schemas with the social utility of leaving addicts in Malayer. The research method is descriptive, using correlation-prediction method and is a cross-sectional study in terms of time. The statistical population in this study was all addicts who left the city of Malayer in 2017-18. The statistical population of the study was the Morgan table and available sampling method. Two hundred ten drug addicts were selected. The criteria for entering the research were: having an addiction, being absent, and patients being interviewed by a psychologist, having no mental disorders or a specific personality, and written consent of the patient. So, after coordination with the addiction treatment clinics of Malayer, the questionnaires, including social utility, attachment styles, and early maladaptive schemas were provided to the patients. Data gathered, firstly, to the patients. The inquiries explained, and they were asked to answer the questions carefully; they were confident about the confidentiality of information and observance of research ethics. Data gathered, and Pearson correlation test was used to investigate the relationship between variables and multiple regression using simultaneous input of predictive variables to predict social desirability. Pearson correlation showed that there is a significant correlation between social utility with secure attachment style (R=0.543, p=0.01) with avoidant insecure attachment (R = -0.43; p <0.01) and Unspecified double bias (R=-0.339; p <0.01). There is reverse and meaningful correlation. Also, there is a significant correlation between all dimensions of early maladaptive schemas except for the degree of dependence on social utility. There is a positive and significant correlation between dimensions of stubborn standards, self-control, and obedience with social utility dimensions, and there is a reverse correlation between the other dimensions of early maladaptive schemas and social utility. The highest correlation coefficient of social utility was with dimensions of self-restraint (0.556), emotional inhibition (0.567), and abandonment (-52.5). The size of the coefficient of determination between the social utility variable and the dimensions of the initial maladaptive schemas and attachment styles is 0.89. The adjusted coefficient of determination between the social utility variable and the dimensions of the initial maladaptive schemas and attachment styles is equal to 785.0. This result suggests that about 78 percent of changes in the social utility variable can be determined through the dimensions of early maladaptive schemas and attachment styles. The ambivalent attachment style and emotional deprivation schemes, abandonment, defect, dependence, occupation, and emotional restraint, reverse and significantly predictive of social utility and safe attachment style, and social isolation schemas, sacrifices, stubborn standards, and self-esteem you positively were able to predict social utility. The main limitation of this study was non-random sampling, so caution should be taken in generalizing the results. Therefore, it is suggested that in the future research, in order to generalize the results, the random method should be used, as well as longitudinal and longitudinal studies in order to investigate the causal relationships of the variables on each other, and finally it is recommended to use other measurement methods such as peer assessment A friend hood study is conducted in order to investigate more precisely the research variables.