The relationship between identity styles and mental health, with a tendency to drug use in students 18 to 20 years of Islamic Azad University, Ramhormoz branch

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between identity styles and mental health with a tendency to drug use. The sample included 300 students 18 to 20 years of Islamic Azad University, Ramhormoz branch that were selected from the Morgan table (1970) and with simple random sampling. In order To collect research data, the questionnaires of Berzonsky Identity styles (1989), symptom chek list-25 Iranian s form (Najarian and Davoodi, 2001) and tendency to drug subscales of the scale of Iranian teenager risk-taking (Zadeh Mohammedi, Ahmad Abadi and Haidari, 2011) were used. For data analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient statistical tests and multiple correlation coefficient were used and for statistical data analysis, spss software was used. The results of the simple correlation coefficients showed a negative and significant relationship between the normative style, identity commitment and mental health with drug abuse, and a positive and significant relationship between diffuse / avoidance style and drug abuse, but there is a negative and non-significant relationship between informational identity style and drug abuse. Multiple regression analysis showed that among predictor variables, two variables of diffuse / avoidance identity style and mental health predict the tendency to drug use and explain 9.4% of the variance that is at the significant level of 0.05.

Keywords:

Identity styles , mental health , tendency to drug abuse