Original scientific paper
THE APPLICATION OF EPQ R/A IN MEASURING ADDICTION AND CRIMINALITY OF HEROIN DRUG ABUSERS
Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-8455
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Teacher Education, department of Preschool Study
Vesna Antičević
; Clinical Hospital Split, Clinic for Psychiatry
Elizabeta Dadić Hero
; University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine and epidemiology
Abstract
An investigation was carried out on N=234 opioid drug abusers (Nm=170, Nf=64) averaged age of M=25.72 with the aim of determing the average levels for addiction and criminality, and sex and age differences. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire for Adults that contained Subscales of Addiction and Criminality was used (EPQ R/A, Eysenck & Eysenck, 1991). The average levels were determined: for Addiction scale in male (M=16.57; SD=5.12) and female (M=17.36; MD=4.82), and for Criminality scale in male (M=17.34; SD=5.18) and female (M=18.34; SD=5.17). The correlation analysis showed significant positive correlation between the level of addiction and criminality on whole sample (r=.851, p=.000). Unemployed male and female heroin addicts had significantly higher results on the Addiction scale, and unemployed male addicts on the Criminality scale, too. This last correlation was not established for female addicts, but the another one was: with the higher level of education there was lower possibility of antisocial and criminal behavior in female addicts. The findings were interpreted in the frame of psychosocial factors that were relevant for the treatment.
Keywords
heroin drug abusers; addiction and criminality levels; Eysenck's dimensions of personality; sex and age differences
Hrčak ID:
57977
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Publication date:
16.9.2010.
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