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Attitudes Of Palestinian Arab Youth Inside The Green Line Toward Experimentation With And Regular Use Of Psycho-Active Substances: Perceptions And Influencing Factors, Khaled Abu Asba, Marwa Asbe

Journal of the Arab American University مجلة الجامعة العربية الامريكية للبحوث

employed self-report questionnaires to 548 Palestinian Arab adolescents to examine the attitudes toward the potential risks of experimenting and regularly using psychoactive substances, family cohesion, parental and friends' attitudes toward the use of psych-active substances. It was hypothesized that the adolescents would attribute higher risk to the regular use when compared with experimentation. Furthermore, family cohesion, parents and friends’ attitudes toward psycho-active substances will significantly predict the attitudes toward the risk of using psycho-active substances among adolescents. After conducting regression analyses, it was found out that the adolescents attributed the higher risk to the regular use of psychoactive substances. The …

The Attitudes Of The Educational Qualification Diploma Students Towards Competencies The Qualification Program Develops From The Students' Viewpoint, رندة العالم

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed at identifying the attitudes that the educational qualification diploma students have towards the competencies developed by the educational qualification program. The study sample comprised of all (108) enrolled and graduating students at the Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie, of whom (15) are enrolled in the program and (93) are graduates. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared a questionnaire that consisted in its final form of (22) items distributed into three areas: knowledge and understanding, skills, and educational values. The results of the study showed the following:

1. The attitudes of the students of the …