Determinants of perceived social support among recovering substance users in Kolkata

Pages: 65-69
Fouzia Alsabah Shaikh (Psychology Research Unit, Kolkata)
Anjali Ghosh (Psychology Research Unit, Kolkata)
A.A.S. Azam (Department of Psychology University of Gondar, Ethiopia)

Excessive research attention has been on the role of perceived social support in recovery related outcomes among illicit substance users leaving limited research evidence regarding its determinants. Researches done in India have explored variation sin social support among substance users in tens of different demographic variables. But not many studies have explored social support in terms of meaning in life and abstinence self­efficacy as perceived by substance users.