A Survey of Depression, Sensation Seeking, Aggression, Attachment Styles and Socio-Economic Status (SES) as Predictors of Drug Dependency among Ahvaz Teenage-Boys

The present research was conducted to study depression, sensation-seeking, aggression, attachment styles, and socio-economic status as predictors of drug dependency among Ahvaz teenage boys. The subjects included 112 drug-dependent teenage boys and 112 non-drug-dependent teenagers. To select the sample of drug-dependent group, accessible sampling was used and to select the non-dependent group, the multiphasic random sampling method was used. All the subjects were assessed by Beck Depression Inventory, Zuckerman Sensation-Seeking Scale, Ahvaz Aggression Inventory and Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment. To analysis data, the discriminant analysis was used. The results of this research showed that teenage-drug dependency can be predicted from depression, sensation-seeking, attachment styles and socio-economic status.