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Substance use among teenagers appears to be more a function
of peer approval and peer drug use. This study examined the
relationship between adolescents’ self-derogation and their
responses to Peers’ Approval of Drug Abuse (PADA) among
male secondary school students. In this study, 3000 students
7
th
to the 9
th
grade secondary schools completed a self-report
questionnaire consisting of self-derogation/rejection and peer
drug abuse approval measure. About 86% of students announced,
most of their peers disapproved of the people using drugs, the
higher the grade levels of the respondents, the higher their level
of self-derogation and approval of drug abuse. The relationships
were found between grade level and self-derogation, and also
PADA. Grade of the students and their responses to Approval
of Drug Abuse had statistically significant effects on the sense
of self-derogation among the students. Our findings supported
the higher the level of self-derogation amongst the students by
grade level, the higher the level of their positive response to
PADA. Significant differences were found in the student’s self-
derogation by PADA suggest that and self-derogation and PADA
are two factors that might precede drug dependency among this
sample of male students.
Keywords
:
Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Peer Approval, Self-Derogation
Type of Study:
Orginal Article |
Subject:
● Psychosocial Health Received: 2015/10/20 | Accepted: 2016/04/25 | Published: 2016/04/26