Predictors of substance abuse among risky drivers: The role of personality characteristics and mental health
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1 Health in Emergency and Disaster Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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5 Clinical Research Development Center, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences,
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چکیده
BACKGROUND: Regarding the high prevalence of substance abuse and its serious complications,the necessity of assessing factors assuming to make tendency toward substance abuse is justifiable.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The statistical population consisted of all car drivers referred to trafficdepartment in 2015 in Kermanshah. In this descriptive study of correlation type, 846 risky drivers fromreferrals to traffic department were randomly selected. Data were analyzed through NEO personalityinventory, general health questionnaire, and discriminant analysis.RESULTS: Discriminant analysis was used to analyze data. Standard coefficients of discriminantfunction revealed that depression, social functionality, physical symptoms, neurosis, and anxietysymptoms were of the highest role in discriminant function while agreeableness and conscientiousnesshad the least role in discriminant function and its success. The discriminant analysis also showedthat linear combination of above variables is able to explain about 75.5% of variance of differencebetween two groups (P < 0.0001).CONCLUSIONS: Regarding the results of this study, it is proposed that the role of personalitycharacteristics as well as mental health in tendency toward substance abuse could be appreciatedand included in preventive and treatment programs held for people with methamphetamine abuse.
