A study of the relationship between the tendency toward drug addiction and the cognitive distortion, personality traits and academic burnout of the university students

Tendency toward using  drugs is defined as a kind of desire and dependency to use narcotics as the result of which the individual surrenders himself to that  desire leading him to certain  physical and psychological consequences.  The purpose of this study is to present a structural model of drug addiction based on cognitive distortion, personality traits and academic exhaustion of the  students of Kermanshah Azad University. As far as the structural models and implementation methods are concerned, the research methodology is defined as a descriptive one based on the correlation of the equations. The statistical population of this research includes the total number of the students of Azad University of Kermanshal branch in the academic year of 1399 – 1400 (2020 -2021), 235  of whom were selected as the sample group based on Cochran’s formula. The sampling method was available. To collect research data, both library and field study methods were used. In the section of the field study for data gathering questionaries on the tendency to use addictive substances of Adram and Nikmanessh (2021), five personality factors (NEO-FFI) and the Cognitive distortion scale were used. SPSS software was used to analyze research data. The results showed that there is a relationship between cognitive distortion and the tendency toward drug addiction. The results also demonstrate that there exists a relationship between personality traits and addiction tendency. Other results also showed that there is a significant relationship between academic burnout and tendency toward drug addiction.