Emotional styles of drug addicts in methadone maintenance programs: Evaluation and comparison

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between different dimensions of Cloninger's tridimensional personality questionnaire in drug addicts. To do this, ninety addicts were randomly selected from different opiate treatment clinics and the questionnaire was administered to them. Our results showed that there was no significant difference between the novelty seeking scale, compared to that of non-addicts. However, there was a significant difference between the harm avoidance and reward dependence scales with those of the non-addicts. These results are discussed in the context of the literature.