Identity Status and Drug Abuse in University Students

The present study aimed to predict drug abuse on the basis of identity status. 160 male students of Iran Is-lamic Azad University, branch of Bandar Abbas comple- ted the Persian version of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Survey Questionnaire (Oetting & Beauvaise, 1987) and the Revi- sed Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (Bennion & Adams, 1986) included foreclosed, diffused, achieved and moratorium identities. Multiple regression ana- lyses indicated that the foreclosed and diffused identities were positive predictors of drug abuse. However, the achie- ved and moratorium identities did not predict drug abuse.