| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 臨床行為科學研究所 === 94 === Illegal Drug use has apparently become a serious problem in our society. The reasons that people become illegal drug users are still unclear. According to the extant literature, Behavioral approach suggests drug addiction is due to chemical substances conditioning. Another approach, Psychoanalysis argues that addiction is a symptom exhibiting underlying personality problems. Besides these previous approaches, attachment theory is valuable in describing the addiction phenomenon because clinical observation shows drug abusers mostly have obstacles in interpersonal relationships. One of the possible explanation is this population might have insecure attachment styles in their early child- parent relationships. Due to the lack of research in attachment approach, we intended to investigate the attachment styles of illicit drug abusers in Drug Abuse Treatment Center. The attachment styles were investigated with Relationship Questionnaire for phase of early childhood, phase of the first time using drugs and phase of the last time using drugs. The investigations in phases of the first time using drugs and of the last time using drugs included the sorts of drugs, the frequencies of drug using, reasons for using drugs, and the severity of dependence.
The results showed significant difference between phases of the first time using drugs and in phase of the last time using drugs. As time of using drug went by, users tend to change amphetamine to heroin, to increase the frequency of drug using, and to use drugs mostly for curiosity to decreasing negative emotions. Evidence didn’t support poor attachment relationships in their early childhood. However, attachment quality had debased in phase of the first time using drugs. There was no difference between the phase of the first time using drugs and phase of the last time using drugs in attachment quality. Participants who had insecure attachment style in phase of early childhood appeared higher frequencies of drug using in phase of the first time using drugs. They prone to choose heroin and to use drugs to release negative emotions in the phase of the first time using drugs.
In conclusion, the present study suggested illicit drug abusers did not have poorer attachment relationships in phase of early childhood. Nevertheless, attachment quality had debased in phase of the first time using drugs. In addition, using correlational analysis by attachment and drug using revealed significant correlations within certain measures.
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