زينب خانجاني, نفيسه فخرائي, رحيم بدري,
Volume 9, Issue 4 (12-2011)
Abstract
Aim and Background: Personality traits are among the factors affecting the tendency to substance abuse. Personality evaluations have shown sensation seeking to be a particularly strong predictor of initial substance abuse across a variety of drug use categories. The aim of this study was to determine levels of sensation seeking in addicted and normal subjects while considering gender. Methods and Materials: The present causal comparative study was performed on 90 individuals (60 male and 30 female addicts with an age range of 20-40). Accessible sampling was used to randomly select the subjects from referrers to welfare centers and outpatient addiction treatment centers in different parts of Tabriz and Marand in 2009. Based on DSM-IV-TR criteria, this group (the case group) suffered amphetamine substance abuse or dependence. The other group (control group) included 60 male and 30 female non-addicts who were among the relatives, neighbors and friends of the subjects in the case group. Overall, the study population consisted of 180 people. Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale was used to collect data. Finally, data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and least significant difference (LSD) post-hoc test Findings: The results revealed a significant difference between addicts and non-addicts in terms of total sensation seeking and its subscales including thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, and boredom susceptibility. The addicted participants scored higher than non-addicts in total sensation seeking and its subscales. In addition, the scores of male addicts were higher than female addicts in total sensation seeking and the subscales of thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, and sensation seeking. However, there was no significant difference between female and male addicts in experience seeking, boredom susceptibility, and disinhibition. Conclusions: Although addiction, as a social pathology, would never be eradicated completely, it can be controlled through management, thinking and devoted attempts. Assessment of personality traits and sensation seeking in addicts provides important information for better definition, recognition, and treatment of addicts.
Akbar Etebarian, Zahra Jalali, Badri Shahtalebi, Reza Ebrahimzadeh Dasjerdi,
Volume 21, Issue 2 (7-2023)
Abstract
Aim and Background: In addition to being considered as a platform for exercising power in society, daily life also provides potential for liberating action and creativity and independence of the subject. Family is one of the most important areas of daily life in which women are the main players. Due to the fact that this field is not free of power relations, like other fields of applying power strategies, it also contains some resistances. The current research analyzes the soft resistance of women against the patriarchal structure. In this article, an attempt was made to examine women's lives in the context of a patriarchal society and analyze some important factors in stabilizing or changing their status, especially in the family.
Methods and Materials: The present research method was descriptive-correlation type. The statistical community in the qualitative section consists of scientific and executive experts and experts, in the fields of sociology and political science, who have authored articles on development, political development, and women's empowerment in various fields of development. (Emphasizing that Female experts must be used) and the purposeful sampling method was used in the qualitative section.
Findings: The results of the research showed that gender socialization with a frequency of 377 has the greatest impact on the analysis of women's soft resistance against the patriarchal structure and the sacred component of the concept of women with a frequency of 69 has the least impact. Among the sub-components, the biggest sub-component of the country's inability to use the potential of women with the number of 57 has the greatest effect on the increase of women's soft resistance against the patriarchal structure.
Conclusions: The findings of the research indicate that Gender socialization plays a significant role in the creation and continuation of harms caused to women in the society and can face the right path with fundamental challenges. The results of this study can be effective in identifying and reducing the harms
