quality of family life and personality traits predictive of drug use in adolescent girls

Document Type : Academic research papers

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faculty of education psychology department Ain shams university

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The aim of the research is to determine the percentage of the contribution of each of the quality of family life and personality traits to the addiction of adolescent drug-abusing adolescents. The researcher translated and developed the Family Life Quality Scale (Panarat, wesa, 2009) and used the Personality Traits Scale (Eysenck, 1984), translated by Ahmed Abdel-Khaleq 1991, and after applying the research tools to the sample of female drug abusers, the research reached a set of results, the most important of which is that it can Predicting adolescent drug use by family quality of life dimensions (family interaction, emotional support), while dimensions (family roles and responsibility, family communication) were not predictive of adolescent drug abuse, and drug abuse by adolescent girls could be predicted by personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism). While personality traits psychotic, lying, aggressive can predict drug abuse by adolescent girls, In light of these results, some recommendations and suggestions for future research were presented.
Keywords: quality of family life - personality traits - drug abuse – Late adolescence

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