Drug addiction has become serious problem among many developing countries. Many young people become addicted to different toxicated materials and, as a result, they cannot contribute to their society. They lose any employment opportunity, cannot continue their education and lose their healthcare. In this paper, we present an empirical study to measure emotional intelligence among different groups of people who were addicted to drugs. The study distributes a questionnaire among three groups consists of 117 questions and 15 scales. The first group of the survey is under community-based treatment, the second group includes the people who are members of a community with unknown identification and the third group covers outpatient patient who receive medication. The results of our survey indicate the level of emotional intelligence among the first group of our study is much more than the other groups.
DOI: j.msl.2011.09.015 Keywords: Emotional intelligence ,Social work study ,Drug addiction ,Drug addiction recovery How to cite this paper: Iravani, M & Mosavi, S. (2012). A social work study on emotional intelligence among different groups of people how are addicted to drugs.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 119-124.
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