The Relationship between Social Problem-Solving Ability, Impulsivity and Drug Dependence in Prisoners of Kerman Province in Order to Provide Aggression Models

Some cognitive, personality, and situational factors have been found that can be associated with aggression. The present study aims at understanding the internal relations of these factors to predict, measure, and treatment the aggression of prisoners who have a history of aggressive behavior. Based on the available resources, a model of aggression that included impulsivity, social problemsolving ability, and drug dependence was investigated with the aim of multiple regression on a sample of 207 male prisoners (having a history of using drug) aged over 18 years old with the educational level of junior-high degree in Kerman Province.The data were collected using Barratt Impulsivity questionnaire (BIS-11), a short form of Zorilla’s social problem-solving ability, the inventory of deliberate /impulsivity aggression (IPAS), and the Substance Dependence Questionnaire (SAD). The results indicated that social problemsolving ability, impulsivity, impulsivity and drug dependence are important in understanding and predicting the aggression. Also, calculating the model’s compatibility parameters showed that the data are appropriately compatible with final model.