Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
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Objective: The present study aimed to compare the cognitive-emotional features, brain-behavior systems, and self-control in women addicted to methamphetamine with normal women.
Methods: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection, being of the causal-comparative type. The study population consisted of two groups: the first group included women addicted to methamphetamine who visited addiction treatment centers in Ardabil, and the second group comprised normal women. Forty women addicted to methamphetamine and forty normal women were selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by Garnefski et al. (2001), the Brain-Behavior Systems Questionnaire by Carver and White (1994), and the Self-Control Questionnaire by Tangney et al. (2004). Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Findings: The results indicated statistically significant differences between the two groups in cognitive-emotional features, brain-behavior systems, and self-control. Women addicted to methamphetamine had higher mean scores for negative cognitive emotion regulation, behavioral inhibition system, and activation system, and lower mean scores for positive cognitive emotion regulation and self-control compared to normal women.
Conclusion: Based on the results, this study can help counselors, health caregivers, and social planners in the treatment of addiction and improve cognitive-emotional features, brain-behavior systems, and self-control in women addicted to methamphetamine.
Methods: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of data collection, being of the causal-comparative type. The study population consisted of two groups: the first group included women addicted to methamphetamine who visited addiction treatment centers in Ardabil, and the second group comprised normal women. Forty women addicted to methamphetamine and forty normal women were selected using convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire by Garnefski et al. (2001), the Brain-Behavior Systems Questionnaire by Carver and White (1994), and the Self-Control Questionnaire by Tangney et al. (2004). Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Findings: The results indicated statistically significant differences between the two groups in cognitive-emotional features, brain-behavior systems, and self-control. Women addicted to methamphetamine had higher mean scores for negative cognitive emotion regulation, behavioral inhibition system, and activation system, and lower mean scores for positive cognitive emotion regulation and self-control compared to normal women.
Conclusion: Based on the results, this study can help counselors, health caregivers, and social planners in the treatment of addiction and improve cognitive-emotional features, brain-behavior systems, and self-control in women addicted to methamphetamine.
Keywords: Cognitive-emotional features, Brain-behavior systems, Self-control, Methamphetamine, Addicted women
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