THE INVESTİGATİON OF VARİABLES PREDİCTİNG THE SİTUATİON OF DRUG ADDİCTİON İN THE FAMİLİES OF UNİVERSİTY STUDENTS
Keywords:
Alcohol or drug addiction, predictor variableAbstract
Objective: Children of alcoholic parents tend to behave erratically in interpersonal relationships that are associated with a variety of physical, psychological and behavioral disorders including codependency, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, allergy, social closeness, asthma, having difficulties to express feelings in their advanced lives. Those variables based upon the substance dependency of the family, can be thought as the predictorvariablesofalcohol orsubstance abuse. The variables such as low selfesteem, codependency, social withdrawal, inability to reflect feelings, anxiety and depression that are associated with alcohol or drug addiction can be observed in Turkey. In this study, it has been aimed to determine the predictor variables affecting the families of university students which have alcohol or drug addicted members.
Method: The Spann-Fischer Codependency Scale-SFCDS, General Health Questionnaire-GHQ-12, Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale-RSES, the Emotion awareness (EA) subscale of Dimension of Interpersonal Relationship Scale and individual information form have been used. In the analyzing of the data, Binary Logistic Regression Analysis method has been used.
Results: According to the results of this research, “domestic violence” was found as a significant predictor on being the member of non-addicted family to alcohol or substance (p<0.05). In addition that, 1-unit increase in total scores of self-esteem led to an increase as 9.5 % [(1-1.095).100] in the odds of being the member of non-addicted family.
Conclusion: These findings may be interpreted as families with drug addicted members can create a risk for the member of those to develop low self-esteem and behaviors including domestic violence in the family.
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