Korean Journal of Addiction Psychology
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ISSN : 2508-3082
Vol.8 No.1
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to analyze the temperament and personality characteristics of drunk drivers. Data from 79 drunk drivers who visited the Road Traffic Corporation in Juju were analysed. For this, the measured data were classified into three groups by cluster analysis. The results found in the study are as follows. It was confirmed that drunk drivers had a high novelty seeking score and a low cooperative score. As a result of cluster analysis of drunk drivers, they were classified into three categories: “immature with neurotic temperament,” “logical with low-risk temperament,” and “self-transcendent with temperament that wants attention.” There were differences in harm avoidance, reward dependence, persistence, self-directedness, and cooperative T scores among the TCI upper scales according to the temperament control function of personality. The results of this study are significant in that they presented a psychological counseling approach direction by temperament and personality characteristics to eradicate drunk driving.
Abstract
This study investigated the general TCI temperament and personality characteristics of first-time drug abusers and compared the differences in TCI profiles between groups through cluster analysis. In order to classify all study subjects into groups with similar personality characteristics, we conduct cluster analysis using the seven TCI-RS top scales. We verified differences in TCI characteristics of each cluster through one-way ANOVA. Based on the DAST-10 scale, a tool for determining drug dependence, we classified into low-risk, medium-risk, and high-risk groups, and verified the difference in scores on the TCI scale between the three groups. The main results of this study are as follows. First, drug abusers had higher ‘novelty-seeking’ scores compared to normal adults’. Second, female drug abusers showed higher ‘harm-avoidance’ scores than males. Third, the more severe the drug dependence, the higher the novelty-seeking, harm-avoidance, and self-transcendence, and the lower self-directedness. Fourth, among the variables of TCI, novelty-seeking, harm-avoidance, and self-transcendence had a significant positive correlation with drug dependence, that is, the risk of addiction. Self-directedness had a negative correlation with drug dependence, and it was found that there was a significant positive correlation with persistence. The study confirmed that ‘high novelty-seeking’ was a general characteristic of drug abusers, and ‘harm-avoidance’ was related to the severity of drug dependence. In addition, the addiction vulnerability of female drug abusers was confirmed, and the characteristics of the ‘high-risk group’ with high addiction risk were ‘high novelty-seeking and high harm-avoidance’, ‘low self-directedness’ and ‘high self-transcendence’.