The Role of Family Expressed Emotion on Psychological Vulnerability Rate and Relapse in Persons With Addiction

Karimi, Masoud and Atadokht, Akbar and Hajloo, Nader and Narimani, Mohammad (2014) The Role of Family Expressed Emotion on Psychological Vulnerability Rate and Relapse in Persons With Addiction. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

Emotional conditions governing the family plays an important role in the disease of the treatment or relapse process. The present study was conducted to investigate the role of family expressed emotion in the vulnerability psychological rate and prediction of relapse of addiction in addicted people. The method used in this study was a descriptive - correlation. The study population consisted of individuals who had referred the addiction treatment centers in Ardabil from October 2013 to January 2014. A sample of the population was randomly selected as 80 subjects using cluster sampling. To collect data, Cole and Kazaryan expressed excitement test and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS) were used and the obtained data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis. The results showed a positive relationship between family expressed emotions and psychological vulnerability rate and the frequency of addicts relapse. Multiple regression analysis also showed that the expressed emotions explain 0.33 of the total variance of the psychological vulnerability rate. These results have implications for professionals working in addiction centers to use the emotional potential of families especially their expressed emotions in promotion addicts psychological well being.

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