Title: A Study of Personality Profiles of Marijuana Users
Authors: Dr Koijam Shantibala Devi, Dr L. Devraj
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i7.79
Abstract
This study was carried out to assess the personality changes of marijuana users and to examine whether marijuana users are prone to psychotic or neurotic features. Purposive sampling method was used for collecting the data. 16 PF and E.P.Q.-R were administered for assessing the personality changes and to detect the development of psychotic and neurotic features for both the groups. The mental condition of the normal individual was worked out by using the General Health Questionnaire 12 items. All the subjects were male because female marijuana users were not available during study period. The study shows that there is difference between the two groups by the primary factors on factor E (Humble vs. Assertive) and M (Practical vs. Imaginative). But there is no difference in Global factors between the two groups. On factor E (Humble vs. Assertive) user tend to accommodate others wishes, and are cooperative and agreeable, willing to set aside their own wishes and feelings. On factor M (Practical vs. Imaginative) users are more oriented to abstract ideas than the external facts practicalities. Being focused on thinking, imagination and fantasy, high scorers generate many ideas and theories and often creative. Extreme scorers can be so absorbed in thought that they can be absentminded and impractical. Highest percentage in extraversion for the control group and highest percentage in neurotic for the case group were found in assessment of three dimensions-psychotic, extraversion and neurotic according to E.P.Q.-R. Extraversion as opposed to introversion, refers to the outgoing, uninhibited, sociable proclivities of a person whereas, Neuroticism refers to the general emotional liability of a person, his emotional over -responsiveness and his liability to neurotic breakdown under stress. Severe and prolong case of neuroticism may lead to the development of psychotic illness in the later stage of life.
Keywords: Marijuana, 16 PF, E.P.Q-R, GHQ.
