Faiza Khalid, Hina Ahmad Hashmi

Resilience, Social Support and Anxiety Among Drug Addicts

An Analysis on the Relationship of Resilience, Social Support and Anxiety Among Heroine and Nicotine Drug Addicts

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Produktbeschreibung

The study was conducted to explore the relationship between resilience, social support and anxiety among drug addicts. The Resilience Scale (Grotberg, 1995), Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support (Zimet, 1988) and Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (Hamilton, 1959) were administered on the sample of the study consisted of (N = 120) drug addicts selected on the basis of stratified random sampling. Information about age, education, working status and marital status were also gathered. The reliability estimates of the scales showed high internal consistency of the measures used in the study. The results of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation indicated that there was positive correlation between resilience and social support. Anxiety was negatively correlated with resilience and social support. Results regarding drug type showed that heroine drug addicts had high level of resilience and social support and low level of anxiety as compared to nicotine drug addicts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 149g
• ISBN-13: 9783843384636
• ISBN-10: 3843384630
• Artikelnr.: 32774946

Autorenporträt

Faiza Khalid completed her Masters degree in Psychology, and Bronze Medalist. She received her degree of Advance Diploma in Clinical Psychology from BZU and got 2nd position. Hina Ahmad Hashmi has a Mphil and a Masters degree in Applied Psychology. She is currently pursuing her Phd in Clinical Psychology at the University of Sheffield.