فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: One of the psychobehavioral factors that can predict drug abuse in students isanger. This study aimed to evaluate the association between anger and drug addiction potential inmedical students in Iran in relation to their gender and college.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive and analytical cross‑sectional study was conductedon 373 students of five colleges at Lorestan University of Medical Sciences in Iran. For collectingdata, Persian versions of state‑trait anger expression inventory‑2 and addiction potential scalewere employed. Data were analyzed in SPSS software using t‑test, one‑way ANOVA, and Pearsoncorrelation test.RESULTS: There was a significant positive relationship between subjective components of anger(sate anger, trait anger, anger expression‑out, and anger expression‑in) and addiction potential insamples (P < 0.05), while anger regulation components (anger control‑in and anger control‑out) hadsignificant negative correlation with addiction potential (P < 0.05). Moreover, a significant differencewas found in mean addiction potential scores between samples based on gender and college. Withrespect to mean anger scores, the difference between students based on gender was significant onlyin terms of state anger and anger expression‑in, while we found no significant difference betweenthem based on college except in anger expression‑out (P < 0.05).CONCLUSION: Subjective components of anger can predict drug addiction potential in medicalstudents. It is recommended that anger management programs should be provided to the medicalstudents as one of the most important community groups in the field of public health.