Structural modeling of drug abuse tendency based on personality traits through the Mediating Role of self-esteem (اصلاح شده)

The aim of this study was to determine the structural modelling of drug abuse tendency based on personality traits through the mediating role of self-esteem in a group of drug addicts under treatment in Tehran.

This research was a correlational study of structural equation. The sample group consisted of 200 people of addicted men who were in addiction treatment centers of Tehran and were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Instruments of research consisted of Addiction Preparedness Scale (wed, et.al.1992), Rosenberg self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1987), and Goldberg personality questionnaire (Goldberg, 1999).

Based on the results the proposed model had a good fitness. Neuroticism personality traits were directly positive predictors, and tasking were directly negative predictors of drug abuse tendency (p<0/05).self-esteem was a direct negative predictor of drug abuse tendency (p<0/05). Neuroticism personality traits with the mediating role self-esteem was negative predictors of drug abuse tendency (p<0/05).

  So, personality traits directly and through self-esteem affects the drug abuse tendency. (اصلاح شده)