Faculty Sponsor: Valerie L. Nazzaro
Live Poster Session: Zoom Link
Abstract: The research focuses on the relationship between the usage of cocaine and relative antisocial personality disorders, representing by the numbers of antisocial behavior an individual performed, by analyzing the 43053 samples extracted from NESARC. The associations are assessed by applying the chi-square test of independence and logistic regressions between these variables. The results showed that there is a significant relationship that people who have used cocaine would perform more antisocial behaviors. Moreover, individual who have cocaine dependence were more likely to have more presence of antisocial behaviors than those who are not cocaine addicts. The research also consider a third variable of sex. However, although sex is a significant factor of determining numbers of antisocial behaviors that females will less likely to perform antisocially than males, it will not change the association between usage of cocaine and cocaine dependence with antisocial behaviors. The implications of these findings for understanding drug use and antisocial personality disorders with the consideration of social impacts are discussed.
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