Education Commons^™

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 …