A social work study on the effect of emotional intelligence factors on recovering people addicted to drugs

Seyed Esmael Mosavi,Mohammad Reza Iravani,Ebrahim Yazdi,Amin Movahedie,Asghar Nikbakht

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2012.08.012

Abstract

dMaster of Educational Administration, Iran e Master of Social Work, Iran A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T

Highlights

Addiction is one of the most important issues threatening young people in developing countries specially those who live in Middle East countries
It is possible to reduce drug addiction by increasing societies' emotional intelligence components. It seems that a society with more sense of optimism will less likely go on drug and social media could play an important role on preventing from drugs and once people go under medication, treatment must include improvement on locus of control, increases optimism among patients and improves locus of control
We have presented an empirical study to measure emotional intelligence among different groups of people who were addicted to drugs

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Introduction

Addiction is one of the most important issues threatening young people in developing countries specially those who live in Middle East countries. The results of their survey indicated that high emotional intelligence was related positive and significant with extroversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness They recommended to set the programs for enhancing the EI to increase mental health, life satisfaction and social skills to have personality and psychological health and prevent tendency to abnormal behavior specially tendency to addiction. The first group of the survey was under community-based treatment, the second group included people who were members of a community with unknown identifications, and the third group covers outpatient patient who receive medication The results of their survey indicated that the level of emotional intelligence among the first group of our study was much more than the other groups. Concluding remarks are given in the last to summarize the contribution of the paper

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