Predicting addiction potential on the basis of early traumatic events, dissociative experiences, and suicide ideation.
BACKGROUND
There is a great deal of medical literature suggesting that substance use disorder is a serious clinical concern, affecting general population and associated with considerable economic, societal, and personal costs.


OBJECTIVE
This study sought to clarify the relationship between early trauma, dissociative experience, and suicide ideation as predictive factors of active and passive addiction potential (A/PAP) in high-school students.


METHODS
Three hundred students with the mean age of 15.72 y were selected via multistage random sampling. All participants were asked to complete Iranian addiction potential scale, early trauma inventory, dissociative experiences scale, and Beck's suicide ideation scale. Analyzing data was done using canonical correlation.


RESULTS
Structural coefficients showed that the pattern of high scores in A/PAP correlates with the pattern of high scores in early trauma, dissociative experience and suicide ideation. The findings of the study showed that the combination of low A/PAP can probably decrease the likelihood of early trauma, dissociative experience and suicide ideation.


CONCLUSIONS
Early trauma, dissociative experience, and suicide ideation can predict A/PAP and explain the considerable variance of survival index.
Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, IR Iran ; Young Researchers and Elite Cub, Shiraz, IR Iran.
Seyedeh Fatemeh
SF
Sajadi
Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Univesity of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Zahra
Z
Hajjari
Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
Yadollah
Y
Zargar
Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
Mahnaz
M
Mehrabizade Honarmand
Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
Nasrin
N
Arshadi
Addictive; Cumulative Trauma Disorders; Dissociative Disorders; Suicidal Ideation