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Md. Sharif Raihan Md. Mozibul Huq Azad Khan and Md. Torun Hasan
Government Azizul Haque College, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
The present study was designed to investigate and compare the levels of happiness
of the drug addict, abstinent and non-addict respondents. To reach the end of the
investigation six hundred respondents were assigned as subjects in the study. All
respondents were male and they were selected from different regions of the country.
Among them, two hundred were drug addicts, two hundred abstinents and two hundred
non-addicts. Bangla adaptation (Akter, 2003) of the Memorial University of Newfoundland
Scale of Happiness (MUNSH), originally developed by Kozma & Stones in 1980 was
administered to measure the happiness of the respondents. The Obtained data were
analyzed by employing analysis of variance and t-tests. Comparisons were made
among the respondent groups (i,e. drug addicts, abstinents and non-addicts). Results
revealed that the happiness levels differ significantly among the respondent groups. It
was found that happiness level of the drug addicts is significantly poorer than that of
the abstinents and non-addicts. On the other hand the happiness level of the abstinent
respondents is significantly poorer than that of the non-addicts