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

Abstract

Drug addiction has become serious problem in many developing countries. Many young people are addicted to different toxicated materials and, as a result, they cannot contribute to their societies. They lose any employment opportunity, cannot continue their education and lose their healthcare. This paper considers the effect of emotional intelligence (EQ) and the likelihood of recovery among addicted people who were under recovery treatments in three different groups in city of Esfahan, Iran including community-based treatment (CT) group, no support addictives (NA) and recovery center. The proposed study uses two types of questionnaires including 90 questions with 15 scales. The survey also uses a standard questionnaire to determine the likelihood of return to drug. The survey uses three samples of people from each three-drug recovery centers. In this study, we perform regression analysis and our survey results show that return to drug is inversely related with being realistic (-2.618), optimism (-2.409) and locus of control (-2.094).

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“…In addition, their results indicated that Puerto Rican IDUs who were older had overdosed on drugs in the past year, had been incarcerated in their lifetime. Mosavi et al (2012) performed an investigation on the effect of emotional intelligence factors on recovering people addicted to drugs. They considered the impact of emotional intelligence (EQ) and the likelihood of recovery among addicted people who were under recovery treatments in three various groups in city of Esfahan, Iran including community-based treatment (CT) group, no support addictives (NA) and recovery center.…”