Gholam Hossein Javanmard
Payam Noor University, Iran
Title: Compering Behavioral Activation and Inhibition Systems in a Opium Addicted and a Healthy Groups
Biography
Biography: Gholam Hossein Javanmard
Abstract
The lack of balance between behavioral activation system (BAS) and behavioral inhibition system (BIS) has been related to several types of psychopathology. This causal-comparative research study aims to investigate BAS and BIS systems in addicted and non-addicted men in north east of Iran. Using purposeful sampling method 57 addicted and 57 non-addicted males were chosen and organized in two groups. The participants answered the 120-item test of activation/inhibition systems (Gray-Wilson Personality Questionnaire or GWPQ). Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) by SPSS software. The findings showed significant differences in activation/inhibition systems were between the groups compared. While the average scores of BIS system in non-addicted people were higher than addicts, the average scores of BAS system in addicts were higher than non-addicted people. This study showed that activity level of BAS system in addicted people is more than non-addicts, and activity level of BIS system in non-addicts is more than addicted people. The high level BAS system activity has been related with some kinds of mental disorders, e. g. substance abuse, eating disorder, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders, and some personality characteristics like guilt feeling and feel remorse. So, this result indicates a basic vulnerability in addicted people for some kinds of psychopathology. May be we could emphesis on a model, that starts with a neuro-behavioral predisposition and go to a psychopathology and finally an addicted person. Even though, we could not ignore environmental factor to foster this special nero-behavioral predisposition.