The effect of Jealousy on the Causes of Tendency toward Addiction

addiction is physical, psychological and social illness, where shocking behavior that has destructive consequences, repeats constantly. Addiction is one of the problems of human societies and combat this problem always many losses a lot of energy and money. Jealousy is an unpleasant feeling and inclusive. The nature and the core of jealousy is wishing and trying the to lose favor others. Jealousy is one of the emotions that disrupt the normal functioning of a personchr('39')s life are sometimes endanger her physical and mental health and it is almost important. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effect the role of jealousy on the causes of tendency toward addiction.

This cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 male addicts referring to addiction treatment centers in Mashhad were selected using random sampling. The instrument was the jealousy and the tendency to an addiction questionnaire. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20 and ANOVA, Pearson and Spearman correlation analysis.

The results showed that the mean of age was 32.3±8.5 years and the mean duration of addiction is 10. 42±6.8 years.  The findings also showed that the average score of them were jealous of 102±21.5 and the average score tendency to addiction is 40.3±7.6. Spearman correlation tests showed that there was a significant correlation between the tendency to addiction and jealousy(P<0.001).

The results suggest that jealousy can predict some addiction tendencies.