ADVERSITY QUOTIENT OF DRUGS ABUSER BASED ON PERSONALITY TYPOLOGY

Abstract

This research aims to find the description of adversity quotient, description of personality typology, and the difference of adversity quotient based on personality types in drugs abuser. This is a quantitative comparative research. The population of this research is drugs abuser in West Sumatera, with sampling technique used snowball sampling. Participants of this research were 253 people from various cities in West Sumatera such as Bukittinggi, Padang, Padang Panjang, Payakumbuh, Solok, Lubuk Sikaping, Pariaman and Agam. The instrument used was Millon Personality Type Inventory developed by Airin Triwahyuni and Adversity quotient scale developed by the researcher. The data were analyzed using anova technique. The result showed there is significant difference of adversity quotient of drugs abuser based on personality type, at the level of p=0.001 (p<0.05).