| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治所 === 96 === 【ABSTRACT】
This study was to deeply look into females’ drug addition process interact with the process of how the partners’ intimate relationships. Specifically, it examines the female drug dependants’ love perspectives, the characteristics of their partners’ intimate relationships, their intimate relationships with partners that play in their drug-addiction process, and the reciprocal influence that drug-addiction process development has on partners’ relationship adjustment.
The interpretative phenomenological analysis is applied on 12 female drug-using inmates, who have constantly been using drugs for more than 12 months before being imprisoned. Deep semi-structured interviews are used to understand their own objective explanations about their own intimate relationships with partners and their drug addiction processes.
The main findings can be shown as follow：
1. The female drug dependants’ love perspectives display three types of ideal relationship expectation, six types of attitude for handling their intimate relationship, and they rely on their partners to fulfill the void.
2. There are some unique characters during their intimate relationships development stages. The affection attachment with their partners would consider loving factor and coping with reality difficulties; forming stage contain six characteristics, maintaining stage contain nine characteristics, and terminal stage contain four characteristics; and they always expect something in reciprocals.
3. The interviewees would use drugs for the following reasons: feeling emptiness, getting along with drug-use partner, and getting intimate partner’ financial sponsoring for drugs; and sometimes, they would sell drugs because of their intimate partners influence. However, they would stop using drugs for maintaining their intimate relationship. Meanwhile, there are four types of intimate partners’ influence on the female drug dependents’ using drug.
4. Drug-addition behaviors may induce the intimate relationship crisis, it reinforce affection attachment as well. The interviewees will adjust their drug-use-habit as a type of easy-accessible coping strategies for their intimate relationship issues since drug-use may have positive effect on their relationship.
Furthermore, the mechanism between intimate relationship and female drug addictive processes is contributed to the following factor:
1. Self: it includes objectives of life, emotional management, attitude for rejecting drug-use, and intimate relationship coping strategies.
2. Partner: drug-use acceptance, financial sponsoring for drugs, and drug-quitting request.
3. Affection interaction: it includes reinforce and terminate of relationship.
4. Affection-attachment: high dependent or low dependent. Affection-attachment and female additive behaviors hold up with each other. For instance, the interviewees may use drugs to cope with the stress of loss of love. They may use or quit drugs to fulfill their attachment of affection when needed. On the other hand, they could also forsake affection attachment on either willing to use drugs or quitting using drugs.
The applications of this study to treatment and relapse prevention with female drug abuse will be discussed and further study will be also discussed.
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