Abstract:
Objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the role of anxiety sensitivity and attentional control in predicting the tendency toward addiction in youth. Method: The present study is a correlation type, in this regard, the number of 150 students were selecte through multistage cluster sampling. The attentional control questionnaire (Derryberry& Reed, 2002), anxiety sensitivity (Peterson& Reiss, 1987) and the readiness scale for drug abuse (Zargar, 2007) were performed on individuals. The research data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression. Results: The results showed that there is a significant correlation between attentional control and the lack of cognitive control with the tendency to addiction. Conclusion: According to the findings it can be concluded that in addition to social and biological factors, psychological factors such as attentional control and anxiety sensitivity is influential in the tendency and readiness of individuals to drug addiction. Keywords: Attentional control, Anxiety Sensitivity, The tendency to addiction,students, health
Machine summary:
The attentional control questionnaire (Derry berry & Reed, 2002), Anxiety Sensitivity (Peterson & Reiss, 1987) and the Readiness Scale for Drug Abuse (Zargar, 2007) questionnaires were used to collect data.
Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that in addition to social and biological factors, psychological factors, such as attentional control and anxiety sensitivity, are influential in the tendency and readiness of individuals to drug addiction.
Individuals with high anxiety sensitivity prefer to devote their attention to stimulus-related and internal or external threats (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007).
Objectives The present study aimed at answering the question of whether anxiety sensitivity and attentional control anticipate the tendency to addiction in youth or not.
To investigate the predictive role of anxiety sensitivity, attention control and tendency to addiction, multiple regression was used simultaneously.
Discussion and Conclusion The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictive role of anxiety sensitivity and attention control in predicting tendency to addiction in young individuals.
These findings are similar to the results of the Derryberry and Reed, which found that students with low attention control and high anxiety sensitivity had a higher rate of deviation for negative and threatening targets; they also concluded that anxious people with high level of attention control focused on threatening targets (Gagne, O’Sullivan, Schmidt, Spann, & Goldsmith, 2017).
, 2018; White, McDermott, Degnan, Henderson, & Fox, 2011).
It is suggested that in the future, the role of predictors of these variables on other age groups is also investigated, and researchers in their studies use effective intervention as mindfulness with targeting attention control and anxiety sensitivity.