Purpose: Women with addicted spouses than other women
suffer from more psychological problems. The present study
was conducted with the aim of comparing the difficulty of
emotion regulation, fear of social negative evaluations and
tendency to suicide in women with addicted and non-addicted
spouses.
Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional
from type of causal-comparative. The research population was
the spouses of addicts who referred to addiction treatment
centers of Zahedan city and the spouses of non-addicts who
referred to health and treatment centers of Zahedan city in
2015 year. Number of 60 spouses of addicts were selected as
samples by simple random sampling method and number of 60
spouses of non-addicts were selected as samples by available
sampling method. The research tools were included the
difficulty of emotion regulation scale (Gratz and Roemer,
2004), fear of negative evaluation scale (Leary, 1983) and
tendency to suicide questionnaire (Beck, 1961). Data were
analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance in SPSS-16
software.
Findings: The findings showed that there was a significant
difference between women with addicted and non-addicted
spouses in terms of all three variables of difficulty of emotion
regulation, fear of social negative evaluations and tendency to
suicide and all their subscales. In the other words, the average
scores of women with addicted spouses in compared to women
with non-addicted spouses significantly worse in all three
mentioned variables and all their subscales (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, planning it
seems necessary to improve family health by drug withdrawal
in addicts.