A comparative study of the value system in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families

Dissertation for Master's Degree in General Psychology

Abstract

This research was conducted with the aim of comparing the value system in families with a member addicted to drugs and families without a member addicted to drugs in Bandar Abbas city. The research method is descriptive and causal-comparative, and the studied population in the present study was families with a member addicted to drugs and families without a member addicted to drugs in Bandar Abbas city. From among the mentioned statistical population, 150 families (75 families with addicted members and 75 families without addicted members) were selected as a statistical sample using Cochran's formula. The tool used in this research was the Schwartz Values ??Questionnaire. The data of the current research was analyzed using Spss statistical software at two descriptive and inferential levels, the results of which are as follows: There is a significant difference between the values ??in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between benevolence in families with drug addicts and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between traditionalism in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between congruence in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between security in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between power in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between arousal in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.111). There is a difference between hedonism in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.003). There is a difference between success in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). There is a difference between self-reliance in families with a member addicted to drugs and normal families (significant level ? = 0.002). There is a difference between universalism in families with drug addicts and normal families (significant level ? = 0.001). In general, the results showed that in all the studied values, the average value of the sub-components of values ??is higher in normal families.

Keywords: values, families with an addicted member and normal families

Introduction

During the last few decades, psychologists, influenced by the anthropological studies of Clackhoun [1] (1976), have shown an increasing desire to analyze Cultural determinants of behavior have shown themselves. With the opening of this window for the study of human beings, researchers have turned to the study of values ??as the main indicators of culture in order to answer the set of problems they have faced. Human values, as cognitive embodiments of desirable and abstract goals, are trans-situational and independent of behavior, their degree of importance is different as guiding principles in the lives of individuals and groups, based on this, people rank them hierarchically (Delkhmosh, 2016). have been busy Although philosophers have addressed it at first, but gradually due to their importance, they have been raised in different parts of human knowledge, and nowadays many sciences consider themselves in need of knowing them and address them from different perspectives. Maybe the reason is that values ??are actually a concept that gives meaning to human life and they are effective guides to guide people. In fact, behind all types of collective behaviors and tendencies, all organizations, patterns, social signs, roles and codes, there is a world of collective ideas and values, and only after understanding these values ??will they be able to justify the behaviors. Considering the importance of values ??in today's world, knowing them is one of the main issues of the present age (Safiri and Sharifi, 2014). Undoubtedly, the family plays the most important and fundamental role in the formation of values, thoughts, opinions, attitudes, behavior, personality, and the way of life and performance of each person.The first and most important education given to any human being throughout history was formed within the family. As the first teachers of humanity, parents have taught the child manners and morals and shaped his personality to a great extent. People who have enjoyed the love and affection of their family in their childhood, under the support of their family, have been able to achieve a precise and correct worldview and have gone through the stages of progress, causing the development of their society, and on the contrary, people who have been deprived of this blessing have faced many problems and problems (Hosseinizadeh Mahdavi, 2015).

Addiction is one of the basic problems of society; A problem that destroys millions of lives and spends large national funds on the cost of fighting, treatment and injuries caused by it (Ashuri, Molazadeh and Mohammadi, 1387). In fact, drug abuse and drug addiction is one of the great evils that humanity is dealing with today in all parts of the world (Mumtazi, 1381). With a realistic look at drugs and its abuse, we can easily see that opiate abuse has existed for centuries and now there is almost no country that has considered the spread of opiate abuse as an unsocial and unacceptable habit, but despite this unacceptability, different classes of society are seriously involved with this issue (Chirillo, Brini, Cambiaz and Maza, translated by Pirmoradi, 2018) during addiction, a person is addicted to a It is a narcotic substance or drug, in such a way that it makes him physically and psychologically dependent on himself and overshadows all his personal and social behavior (Saduk [2] and Saduk, 2003, quoted by Khodaei, 2014).

Addiction has been studied from various aspects so far. One of the concepts that must be taken into account for the analysis of addiction is institutions and networks of mutual relationships. In other words, the most important institution in the analysis of addiction phenomenon is (family); Because family conditions and situations can be the basis for the tendency to addiction (Agha Bakshi 1379) 1-2-Statement of the problem Values ??are the principles and morals that exist in every person and even when someone does not pay attention to them, they guide his actions and choices. Therefore, values ??are much more powerful than procedures, rules, laws and regulations in guaranteeing people's compatible behavior with the environment. Values ??always exist for people to react to situations based on them, unless they undergo change. The most basic unit of creating values ??is the family. The composition of family members includes husband and wife and children and they create a relatively independent unit. Based on each of the combinations, the values ??are affected. The values ??created in people become a part of their personality and since the formation of personality is fast in the early years of life, it is very important to pay attention to the functions of the family and school in the field of child and adolescent education. Values ??originate from the ideology and worldview of people and are mixed with environmental realities and determine the movement process of family, school and society in the form of basic criteria. The relationship between family and values ??is a two-way relationship. The family, which is the most effective institution for raising children, plays the most fundamental role in creating and strengthening values ??in them, and when the values ??are institutionalized in the existence of children and adolescents over time, they determine the direction and manner of their movement towards the future (Nasiri, 1386). be true or false; Evaluative beliefs by which one judges whether something is good or bad; Prescriptive or prohibitive beliefs by which a practical means or goal is evaluated as favorable or unfavorable. Value is belief of the third type; That is, it is a prescriptive or prohibitive belief. Rukich believes: "Value is a belief based on which a person takes action because he considers something to be preferable" (Amiri, 2015).

Schwartz[4] (2006), based on Rakich's theory, puts forward his theory about values ??and states that values ??are trans-situational goals that serve as guiding principles in the life of an individual or a group and have different importance.