Abstract:

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in substance use behavior in our country It is getting increasingly difficult to cope with this increase.Likewise,due to substance abuse, feelings of suicidal thoughts and hopelessness increase. This makesprevention and intervention of substance abuse difficult. At this point, it is important to determine the factors that cause hopelessness and suicide ideation among substance users. Thus, the aim of the study is to determine the relationship between psychosocial variables and hopelessness and suicide ideation among substance users and to examine the variables that cause suicide ideation and feelings of hopelessness in terms of personality and family functioning. This study is a cross-sectional study and it is conducted with 257 male substance users by purposive sampling method. The variables are gathered from Personal Data Form, Hopelessness Scale, Suicide Ideation Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised-Abbreviated Form, Family Assessment Device. To analyze the differences between psychosocial variables and hopelessness, suicide ideation independent-sample t test was used and to determine the predictors of hopelessness and suicide ideation hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used. According to the results, it was found that economic insufficiency, psychiatric diagnosis, substance use in the early years, substance use in the family and social environment, and exposure to violence during childhood or adolescence increased hopelessness and suicide ideation.In addition, neuroticism personality trait is the best predictor of hopelessness and the best predictors of suicide ideation are neuroticism, psychoticism personality traits and problem solving, communication, roles, behavior control in family system. In the light of these findings, it is thought that family functioning should be examined in substance users who show the characteristics of neuroticism and psychoticism and appropriate psychosocial intervention studies should be done in the micro-mezzo-macro dimensionto reduce hopelessness and suicidal ideation 

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