Citation

Rostami R, Zarei J, nejad SZ, Larijani R. Procedia Soc. Behav. Sci. 2010; 5: 738-740.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.175

PMID

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Abstract

Child abuse is an important social and health problem in the world. Behavioral and psychological problems in adolescence and adulthood are the long term psychological effects of physical abuse. Behavioral problems such as aggression in adolescence and drug abuse are common in individuals who were abused in childhood. Nevertheless, there is no integrative study of childhood abuse in Iranian addicts. Therefore, this study investigates the childhood abuse in addicts with the purpose of planning a psychological treatment for these patients. The purpose of this study is the investigation of sexual, physical, emotional and verbal abuse in childhood in male addicts in comparison with non addict population. For this purpose, 100 male addicts who were referred to therapeutic institutes in 2009 and 100 non male addicts answered to Child Abuse Self Report Survey(CASRS). Data have been analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS 16.The results show a positive and significant relationship between child abuse experience and addiction in adulthood, and it can be concluded that The experience of abuse and neglect in childhood is one of the effective factors of addiction in adulthood.