چکیده:
Objective: In all societies, adolescents are the most vulnerable age group to addiction.
Decision-making styles and attitude toward substances can play an important role in the
tendency of adolescents to addiction.
The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of decision-making styles and attitude
toward substances in predicting the potential addiction among adolescents.
Methods: In this descriptive study, a total of 546 adolescents participated from different high
schools in Lorestan Province, Iran that were selected through multiple cluster sampling method.
The participants were asked to complete different questionnaires of demographic characteristics,
decision-making styles, attitude toward substance, and potential addiction. The obtained data
were analyzed through SPSS 16. The Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis
were used for determining the relationships between the study variables.
Results: The results of the study indicated that general attitude; beliefs; emotions; readiness for
action; avoidant, spontaneous and dependent decision-making styles have significant positive
correlations with potential addiction. While potential addiction is correlated negatively with
rational and intuitive decision-making styles. Also, the results of regression analysis showed
that potential addiction is predictable by the components of the decision-making styles and
attitude toward substances. Multiple regression analysis indicated that components of the
decision-making styles and attitude toward substances significantly predicted 25.1% and
20.7% of the variance of potential addiction, respectively.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that decision-making styles and attitude toward
substance can explain a high degree of variability to potential addiction among adolescents.
Accordingly, teaching rational decision-making style and negative attitudes to substances may
lead to improvements in the prevention and treatment of addiction in adolescents.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Research Paper: Decision-Making Styles and Attitude Towards Substances: Predictors of Potential Addiction in Adolescents CrossMark Khadijeh Fooladvand1*, Ahmad Borjali1, Farideh Hosein Sabet1, Ali Delavar2 1.
The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of decision-making styles and attitude toward substances in predicting the potential addiction among adolescents.
Results: The results of the study indicated that general attitude; beliefs; emotions; readiness for action; avoidant, spontaneous and dependent decision-making styles have significant positive correlations with potential addiction.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that decision-making styles and attitude toward substance can explain a high degree of variability to potential addiction among adolescents.
Research also indi- cates that, in all societies, adolescents are the most vulner- able age group to addiction (Amanelahi, Aslani, Mazeri Ebrahimi, & Darkhor, 2012) and substance use in adoles- cents has increased (Howlett, Williams, & Subramaniam, 2012).
Raw and standardized coefficients of attitude to substance regression equation to predict potential addiction (View the image of this page) making styles (rational, intuitive, avoidant, dependent and spontaneous) can be significant predictors of po- tential addiction.
Second, although the results of this study indicate that decision-making styles and attitudes toward substance play a significant role in predicting potential addiction; these results do not mean that these variables are the only explanatory factors for potential addiction in adolescents.
In summary, the findings of this study showed that adolescents’ decision-making styles and attitudes toward substances influence the potential addiction in adoles- cents."