Substance use among school students is a growing concern among all stakeholders (Gilvarry, & McArdle, 2007), as it is associated with unsatisfactory school performance, delinquent behaviors, and high tax dollar expenditure on social services, medical health, and justice system (Monge et. al, 1999). Smoking, drinking, and drug use are some of the prominent causes of morbidity and mortality among schoolchildren in the United States (Ref…). The onset of such habits occurs during early adolescence and may continue in adulthood. Given the serious nature of alcohol and substance use, it is important to identify risk factors and protective factors associated with drug use among adolescents. There are several studies to understand protective and internal
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The process of children’s adaptations to such environmental factors may have the influence on their social, cognitive, affective, and behavioral domains. Children who have formed meanings and perceptions through the process of adaptations may develop negative self-perception including low self-esteem or resiliency. Many children experience bullying, rejection, peer pressure, and peer deviant behavior at school as well as after school. Some of them are victims of physical, sexual, verbal assaults by their peers. Children’s such experiences may also be associated with their maladaptive coping skills and drug use can also be one of them. Additionally, no studies have been conducted to see the coincidence of self-perception (including self-esteem and victimization at school or after school) and attitude towards drug as risk factors for substance use among secondary …show more content…
The study will analyze various demographic information as the backdrop of the psychosocial risk factors of the substance use by the adolescents. It 's finding could have implications for social work interventions, policy, and general school administration. The proposed research may also have the limitations as it may not establish the causal connections among different variable due to using secondary data and lack of randomly controlled experimental design. This is a cross-sectional study and students are interviewed once, which would make it difficult to conclude self-perception and perception about substance as cause, correlate, or consequences of substance use. The research findings, however, seen in the demographic backdrop of the population would be helpful in showing the prevalence of positive or negative self-perception and perception towards substance as associating factors of substance use among adolescents. The proposed research finding might have implications for designing after school programs, drug and alcohol support programs, individual and group therapy, and school
The process of children’s adaptations to such environmental factors may have the influence on their social, cognitive, affective, and behavioral domains. Children who have formed meanings and perceptions through the process of adaptations may develop negative self-perception including low self-esteem or resiliency. Many children experience bullying, rejection, peer pressure, and peer deviant behavior at school as well as after school. Some of them are victims of physical, sexual, verbal assaults by their peers. Children’s such experiences may also be associated with their maladaptive coping skills and drug use can also be one of them. Additionally, no studies have been conducted to see the coincidence of self-perception (including self-esteem and victimization at school or after school) and attitude towards drug as risk factors for substance use among secondary …show more content…
The study will analyze various demographic information as the backdrop of the psychosocial risk factors of the substance use by the adolescents. It 's finding could have implications for social work interventions, policy, and general school administration. The proposed research may also have the limitations as it may not establish the causal connections among different variable due to using secondary data and lack of randomly controlled experimental design. This is a cross-sectional study and students are interviewed once, which would make it difficult to conclude self-perception and perception about substance as cause, correlate, or consequences of substance use. The research findings, however, seen in the demographic backdrop of the population would be helpful in showing the prevalence of positive or negative self-perception and perception towards substance as associating factors of substance use among adolescents. The proposed research finding might have implications for designing after school programs, drug and alcohol support programs, individual and group therapy, and school