In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Health Psychology Association

Document Type : Scientific Research

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Abstract

Objective: The aim of study was to assess the relationship between pain coping strategies and personality traits in substance abusers.
Methods: 85 addicted were randomly selected during three months and Rosenstein & Keefe's Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire (PCSQ) and McCare & Costa´s NEO PI-R inventory were administered on them.
Results: Finding showed addicts got more scores in neuroticism personality traits and disastrous thought pain coping strategies. Also correlation analysis showed that there are positive significant relationship between neuroticism and disastrous thought, negative significant relationship between agreeableness and disastrous thought, negative significant relationship between neuroticism and diverting attention, positive significant relationship between extroversion and conscientiousness with diverting attention.
Conclusions: With regard to findings it is recommended that in drug treatment, for changing the attitudes and thinking in addicts, psychologists can apply psychological treatments specially cognitive-behavior therapy to reduce bad and abnormal thinking level about pain so that the length during of treatment decline and as a results reduce the personality problems that is related with addiction before and in during of drug treatment.

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