The Role of Emotional Family Atmosphere in Drug Use Tendency: the Mediating Role of Negative Affect

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of emotional family atmosphere in drug use tendency based on the mediating role of negative affect.
A correlational research method was used for the conduct of this study by using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research included students of Farhangian Shahid Beheshti Campus of Mashhad in the academic year 2017-18. From among this population, the number of 400 students (311 male students and 89 female students) was selected as the participants of the study via random cluster sampling method. Addiction Tendency Questionnaire (Mirhesami, 2009), Emotional Family Atmosphere Scale (Burn, 1964), and Positive and Negative Affect Scale (Watson et al., 1988) were used for data collection. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural simulation modeling in SPSS (version 18) and AMOS (version 21).
The results showed that negative affect has a mediating role in the relationship between emotional family atmosphere and drug use tendency. In addition, the fit indices are also placed in the domains. According to these points, the final model of the research enjoys a desired goodness of fit.
Considering the role of emotional family atmosphere and negative affect in predicting addiction, it is possible to make use of the current findings to train families and conduct preventive interventions in educational centers through the conduct of appropriate workshops.