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Causal Modeling of Adolescent Drug Addiction Tendency Based on Personality Types and Perception of Social Support and the Mediating Role of Body Image

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Seifollah aghjani 1
Shayan Noori Lasaki 2
Roghayeh Khademi 3
محمد زارعی نوروزی 4

1 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil

2 Master's student in clinical psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.

3 Master of Educational Sciences, Payam Noor University, Miandoab Branch, West Azarbaijan, Iran.

4 میدان بیت المقدس، خیابان امام رضا (ع).

Abstract
The aim of the present study was to model the causality of adolescents' tendency to drug addiction based on personality types and the perception of social support and the mediating role of body image. In terms of method this research was a descriptive correlation of the type of structural equations. The statistical population of this research was all the male and female students of the second year of secondary school in Mashhad in the academic year 1402-1403, from which 330 people were selected as available. The data collection tools were Weed & Butcher (1992) Addiction Tendency Scale and Zimmet et al.'s (1988) social support perception questionnaires, Rathus & Nevid's (1989) personality types, and Cash et al.'s (1997) body image. To describe the findings, mean and standard deviation were used, and Pearson's correlation tests and structural equation models were used to infer information using SPSS-27 and AMOS-24 software. The results of this research showed that this research model had a good fit (χ2/df=2.1, RMSEA=0.06, SRMR=0.07, GFI=0.93, AGFI=0.91, CFI=0.92) and personality types both directly and indirectly , but perceived social support They have an effect on addiction tendency only indirectly through body image. The present study showed that in order to prevent the tendency of adolescents to become addicted to drugs, it is very important to investigate their personality types and body image.

Keywords

Addiction Tendency
Personality Types
Social Support
Adolescent

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