Abstract

GUIJARRO OROZCO, Genesis Daniela  and  SANTOS PAZOS, Diego Armando. Clinical patterns of personality and family functioning in drug addicts. Rev Eug Esp [online]. 2025, vol.19, n.1, pp.15-27. ISSN 2661-6742.  https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37135/ee.04.22.02.

Personality patterns and family functioning can enhance or mitigate the development of addictive behaviors, a psychosocial problem that affects vulnerable groups worldwide. This research aimed to establish the relationship between clinical personality patterns and family functioning according to the substance consumed in a population of drug-dependent patients admitted to rehabilitation centers in Zone 3, Ecuador. Its design was a non-experimental, transversal, and correlational type. The data were obtained through the documentary analysis technique from the review of medical records recorded by the institute's professionals, in which psychometric instruments were applied for psychological evaluation: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III) and the Family Functioning Questionnaire (FF-SIL). The avoidant, antisocial, and depressive clinical patterns predominated among the different substances consumed. The dysfunctional family was highlighted in users of alcohol (44.4%), marijuana (45.5%), cocaine (63.7%), and multiple substances (60.9%). No statistically significant differences were found between the study variables concerning the consumption group. The correlation between personality patterns and family functioning was statistically significant and inversely proportional, with a moderate intensity between avoidance and functionality (-0.251). Therefore, when personality patterns increased, family functioning tended to decrease.

Keywords : Substance abuse treatment centers; drug users; substance dependence; personality..

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