A Study of Perception of Parental Attitude and Personality Disposition in Student Drug Abusers: a Longitudinal Study

This paper makes an attempt at understanding the relationship between the personality of an individual with the perception of that individual of parental attitude among two major groups, namely, drug abusers and non-abusers. This study is a longitudinal study which has been conducted, as an extensio...

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Main Author: Singh, Mannat (Author)
Contributors: Lather, Anu Singh
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: Indian journal of criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-41
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Summary:This paper makes an attempt at understanding the relationship between the personality of an individual with the perception of that individual of parental attitude among two major groups, namely, drug abusers and non-abusers. This study is a longitudinal study which has been conducted, as an extension of an already existing research of the year 1985. The study conducted in the year 1985 was replicated to understand the evolution that may have taken place in terms of personality disposition as well as perception of parental attitude among the two groups. Personality dispositions comprise of anxiety, hysteria, mania, paranoia, psychopathic deviation, repressor sensitizer, Schizophrenia, and K (Lie). Perception of parental attitude comprise of Parental Identification, Rule Enforcement, Sex-role Enforcement, Achievement Standards, Family Harmony, Mother Positivity, Mother Democracy, Father Positivity, and Father Democracy. Both the phases of study include only male respondents. In 1985, total number of respondents were about 310, out of which 150 were abusers and 150 were non abusers. In the second phase of study, 100 respondents were interviewed, out of which 50 were abusers and 50 were non abusers. The first scale that has been used to understand personality disposition is, Multi Phasic Personality Questionnaire which was created by Murthy, Laxminarayan, Satyavathi (1964). Scale used to understand the perception of the groups about the Parental Attitude is a Questionnaire by Spence and Helmreich which was created in the year 1979. This is a quantitative study which was analyzed by using statistical tools such as ANOVA.