Structural model of socio-cultural factors affecting the process of sustainable withdrawal from addiction

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran

2 Assistant professor of sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Shahrekord University, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Ayatollah Borujerdi University, Borujerd, Iran

4 PH. D student of Iran's social problems, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran

Abstract

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The aim of this study was to investigate the cultural and social factors affecting the process of sustainable withdrawal from the perspective of addiction experts. The present research method is quantitative and the research tool is a questionnaire. The technique used in the present study is the Dimatel technique, According to this technique, based on pairwise comparisons, by using the opinions of experts in extracting the factors in the system, systematically structuring them and applying the principles of graph theory, a hierarchical structure of the factors in the system with relationships Provides interaction and mutual influence of the mentioned elements. In order to quantify the effect of the mentioned relationships, the statistical population consisted of 13 specialists and experts in the field of addiction who had mainly studied and had expertise on addiction and its permanent withdrawal. The results showed that the most influential variables are related to the variables of persistent addiction, socio-economic status and group of friends, respectively. Also, the variables that had the greatest effect on quitting addiction are mental health with 1.57, abnormality with 0.1, religiosity with 0.882 and social control with group of friends with 0.658, respectively. Have had an impact on the process of quitting addiction.

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