Exploring the differences among alcoholics and non-alcoholics of Nasik urban region with relation to neuroticism, conscientiousness, anger expression, and impulsivity

Pages: 1632-1636
Sujata Mujumdar and Rajashree Kapure (Department of Psychology, H.P.T. Arts and R.Y.K. Science College, Nashik, Maharashtra)

Alcohol addiction affects people from all walks of life. Many studies attempted and conducted for checking and studying the psychiatric symptoms of alcohol dependence resulting in different losses. Various researchers tried to find out reasons such as socio-cultural aspects, geographical factors to biological one. Present study is an attempt to see psychological aspects involved in addiction. Present study tried to compare and correlate the influence of personality traits: neuroticism, conscientiousness and factors such as anger expression, and impulsivity on addictive behavior. Tools such as NEO-FFI by Costa and McCrae, STAXI by Charles Spielberger and Impulsivity scale by Barrett were administered to a sample of 60 participants combined with clinical and non clinical group. Male participants within age group of 30 to50 years were taken into consideration belonging to urban Nasik region. It was found that alcoholic group and non-alcoholic group differed onall the four dimensions: neuroticism (‘t’=4.15) conscientiousness (‘t’=3.71) anger expression (‘t’=4.81) and impulsivity (‘t’=8.06). As a part of co relational findings neuroticism and conscientiousness are negatively correlated with each other for alcoholic group with(‘r’=-0.29). Thus with an attempt to focus on psychological causal factors it has been significantly proved the difference and relationship though for the limited sample size and comparatively covering smaller geographical area. This study may try to focus in near future on assessing and examining the remedies of intervention and rehabilitation as a major part of the society at present involved in alcohol dependence.