The Role of Personality Traits, Personality Functioning, Traumatic Life Events, and Emotion-Regulation Difficulties in Predicting Polysubstance Use

Objective: Polysubstance use as a severity index in individuals with substance abuse disorder is associated various psychological, social, cultural, and genetic factors. This research aims to examine the predictive role of personality traits, functions, traumatic life events, emotion-regulation difficulties polysubstance dependence. Methods: A total 300 subjects (75.2% male) mean age 40.07 years standard deviation 12.26 were chosen via available sampling method. The included abusing one (30.6%), group multiple substances (37.5%), nonclinical (31.7%). participants completed questionnaires short-form inventory based on Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders, fifth edition, levels functioning scale, dysfunctional emotion regulation events checklist. Results: results ranked regression structural equation modeling indicated that variables traits (2.69), emotional strategies (2.04), (1.17), stressful factors (1.65) had significant predicting drug abuse. Conclusion: Personality affects all dimensions. Emotion strategies, by affecting maladaptive especially negative affectivity antagonism, well functions can predispose person use.