Page No – 333-340
Sushila Pareek
University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
Role of intelligence, subjective well-being, purpose in life, personality and locus
of control in opium-dependents and non-dependents in a rural community was
studied. A sample of 100 opium-dependents and 100 non-dependents was drawn
from the village population of the Jodhpur district in Western Rajasthan. They
were administered tests of Subjective Well-being, Purpose in Life, Karolinska
Scale of Personality, Standard Progressive Matrices and Social Reaction
Inventory. To identify the nature and minimum number of psychological
components necessary to describe the opium dependence, factor analysis
following principal component solution with a varimax rotation was performed
both for opium-dependents and non-dependents. Finally, 7 factors for the opiumdependent group and 9 factors for non-dependent group were extracted.