Personalidad y consumo de sustancias Psicoactivas.

Abstract

Personality traits play an important role in human behavior. There is also evidence that could indicate the relationship of these traits with the consumption of psychoactive substances. For this reason, the main objective of this research is to identify personality traits and the level of risk of psychoactive substance abuse by means of the 5-factor model and the ASSIST test, in the population belonging to the Drug Addiction Care Center service of the “Hospital Mental Rudesindo Soto”, observing the relationship between them. Regarding the methodology, it employs a transversal type of research, under a quantitative approach and a descriptive design. Likewise, the sample was made up of users belonging to the Drug Addiction Care Center program, aged between 18 and 22 years old, who are in the inpatient treatment phase of the Rudesindo Soto Mental Hospital. Likewise, the sampling technique used was probabilistic under a "self-selected" model. According to the results found, Introvert, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism are the variables that most influence the population with respect to the level of consumption of psychoactive substances.