The study of life quality of married couples with the different state of family health and addictive behavior in women

Abstract

Aim – the study of life quality of married couples with the different state of family health and addictive behavior (AD) in women for revelation of targets of the further psychocorrectional work with this contingent. Contingent . 321 married couples (MC), who addressed for help because of disorders of family relations and “socially acceptable” addictive behavior in women (studied group, SG). As the groups of comparison there were also examined 50 MC with disorders in family health, where were not the problems of addictive character in women (group of comparison, GC) and 50 conventionally harmonious MC (group of comparison 2, GC 2). Methods . Clinical-psychological and psychodiagnostic ones using the questionnaire of life quality, elaborated by Mezzich, Cohen, Ruiperez, Liu&Yoon (1999). Results . In women with family health disorder the life quality is characterized with essential decrease with heterogenic injury of its separate components, not depending of presence/absence of addictive behavior. The main problem that generates the circle of “pathological” causal connections of the disorder of family functioning in women and formation of addictive behavior in them is the problem of women’s feeling as being psychologically and emotionally “torn away” in family and macrosocial environment. Such situation that is a result of situation-conditioned frustrative (maladjustment) reaction that is, in its turn, conditioned by the presence of emotional and communicative problems between women – family – society, provoke women to solve it in “addictive” way. Conclusions . The basic target of psychological correction and psychoprophylactic support at the family health disorders in women with addictive behavior must be the problem of women’s feeling as being psychologically and emotionally “torn away” in family and macrosocial environment that in most women becomes a background for addiction