The role of the sense of agency and deviant personality traits in predicting addiction tendency in secondary high school students

The aim of this study was to examine the role of the sense of agency and deviant personality traits in predicting addiction tendency in secondary high school students. The study is descriptive-correlational. The population of this study included all male students of a state high school in Pars Abad City during 2017 academic year. 120 people from this population selected by random-cluster sampling and filled out the Addiction Potential Questionnaire of Zargar and et al, Sense of Agency Scale of Woody et al., and Personality Deviant Scale of Bedford et al. The data was analyzed by Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression. The results of correlation coefficients showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between addiction tendency and the components of simplicity and incontinence. The components of deviant characteristics of personality were lack of trust, dependence, and hostile acts has a positive and significant relationship (p < 0.01). The results of multiple regression showed that 37 percent of the total variance of tendency to addiction is explained by the sense of agency and deviant personality traits. The results of this study revealed that the sense of agency and deviant personality traits have the ability to predict the tendency to addiction in teenagers in a meaningful way.