چکیده:
Objective: Craving is the central core of addiction and the reason for substance abuse
continuation and also returning to addiction after treatment. In order to identify the effecting
factors on craving, this study was performed to determine the role of self-compassion,
cognitive self-control and illness perception in predicting the craving levels in people with
substance dependency.
Methods: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population included all
thepeople with substance dependency referring to Shiraz addiction treatment centers from
July to September 2013. One hundred and fifty people from this population were selected
by multistage cluster random sampling method. Having conducted clinical interviews, they
were being asked to response the self-compassion, cognitive self-control, illness perception,
and craving questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed by tests of Pearson correlation and
multivariate regression using SPSS 18.0 software.
Results: The findings showed that craving was positively correlated with self-judgment (r =
0.21; P < 0.05), and negatively correlated with self-compassion (r = -0.31; P < 0.001), cognitive
self-control (r = -0.18; P < 0.05), and illness coherence (r = -0.16; P < 0.05) as one component
of illness perception. Results of the regression analyses showed that 10% of craving variance
was explained by self-compassion, which was one of the components of self-compassion and
3% of its variance explained by cognitive-self-control.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that self-compassion and cognitive self-control
are predictors of craving in people with substance dependency.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The Role of Self-compassion, Cognitive Self-control, and Illness Perception in Predicting Craving in People With Substance Dependency Sajjad Basharpoor 1, Diba Khosravinia 2, Akbar Atadokht 1, Somayeh Daneshvar 3, Mahammad Narimani 4, Omid Massah5* 1.
In order to identify the effecting factors on craving, this study was performed to determine the role of self-compassion, cognitive self-control and illness perception in predicting the craving levels in people with substance dependency.
In this respect, Sussman, Dent and Leu (2003) in their study on a sample of 1050 156July 2014, Volume 2, Number 3 subjects showed that there are meaningful negative cor- relation between low self-control and smoking, alco- hol, marijuana, and other kinds of drug consumption.
Illness perception covers information in 5 dimensions: nature, which means illness related tags and symptoms (like fatigue and weakness); reasons or belief about reasons, which causes illness onset; time or individual percep- tion about illness duration depending on whether the illness is acute, periodical or chronic; consequences or expected results of the illness based on economic, social, psychological, and physical effects and the usefulness of control, treatment and improvement (Edger, Psychol & Skinner, 2003).
The results of the previous studies showed that cognitive self-control is effective on restraining risky behaviors, and illness perception is important in the process of illness recovery, but the role of these variables in craving as an important factor in addition relapse have not been studied.
Considering the predicting role of these vari- ables, the purpose of the present study is to determine the role of self-compassion, cognitive self-control, and illness perception in craving level of people with sub- stance dependency.