Comparison of Family Resilience and Emotional Maturity between Dependent and Non-Dependent Men

The purpose of this study was to compare family resilience (family communication and problem solving, utilizing social and economic resources, maintaining a positive outlook, family connectedness, family spirituality, ability to make meaning of adversity) and emotional maturity between dependent and non-dependent men.
This is a casual-comparative research. Convenience sampling was used to recruit120 participants, who were clients of addiction treatment of Fuman –Iran in 2014. A corresponding number of non-dependent participants were also recruited the same way. The research instruments were Family Resilience and Emotional Maturity scales. Multivariate Analysis of variance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data.
The results showed that dependent people scored lower in all subscales of family resilience, namely, family communication and problem solving, utilizing social and economic resources, maintaining a positive outlook, family connectedness, family spirituality, ability to make meaning of adversity than non-dependent people (p>0.001).They also scored lower in emotional maturity scale than non-dependent people.
The results of current research imply that people with low family resilience and emotional maturity are more likely to become dependent on drugs.