The Comparison of Attentional Bias and Difficulty of Emotional States Regulation and Their Correlation with Craving Severity in Drug Abuser Methamphetamines and Crack

Raheleh Haghiaght; Nezamaddin  Ghasemi; Mehdi Rabiei; Asghar Zerehposh; Ahmadreza Kiani

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The Comparison of Attentional Bias and Difficulty of Emotional States Regulation and Their Correlation with Craving Severity in Drug Abuser Methamphetamines and Crack

Author(s):

Raheleh Haghiaght¹,

Nezamaddin Ghasemi^1,*,

Mehdi Rabiei²,

Asghar Zerehposh²,

Ahmadreza Kiani³

2Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

2Department of Clinical Psychology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education a nd Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 16, issue 10(suppl)

Published online:May 19, 2013

Article type:Research Article

Received:Feb 08, 2013

Accepted:Apr 09, 2013

How to Cite:Haghiaght R, Ghasemi N, Rabiei M, Zerehposh A, Kiani A. The Comparison of Attentional Bias and Difficulty of Emotional States Regulation and Their Correlation with Craving Severity in Drug Abuser Methamphetamines and Crack. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2014;16(10(suppl)):. doi:

Abstract

Background: Today, within creased substance, type of substance used has changed. Therefore, drug abuse in population of crack to the stimulant drugs (amphetamine) particularly crystal is expanding and increasing. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was the comparison of attentional bias and difficulty of emotional states regulation and their correlation with craving severity in drug abuser methamphetamines and crack.

Materials and Methods: Type of research was descriptive analytical correlation. Population was total of users with methamphetamines and crack in summer and fall 2011 at the city of Isfahan, and 34 users with crystal with daily at least one year were selected on the basis of the snow ball sampling and 31 users with crack with daily at least one year were selected on the basis of the sample sampling. The difficulties emotion regulation scale (DERS), Stroop test and OCDUS were used as the outcome measures. For findings used of descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) and regression analysis were used.

Results: The results of analysis of variance showed that between drug abuser crystal and crack significantly differed of attentional bias and difficulty of emotional states regulation. The greatest differences to components of a lack of transparency, lack of emotional awareness, limit emotional states regulation strategies and of emotional responses. But, only the variable non-acceptance negative emotional of subscale of the difficulty of emotional states regulation was able to craving (as an important indicator of durable use substance) in of both crack and crystal predicted. This variable is only 13% of the variance craving in drug abuser crack and crystal can be explained. Other findings showed that although there is no difference between the two groups in the intensity of craving, but attentional bias among drug abuser crack and crystal was a significant difference.

Conclusions: Overall, can be said the difference in difficulty of emotional states regulation, attentional bias and craving among abusers of amphetamines (crystal) substance opiate (crack), two groups of abusers requires different approaches to interventions.

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