The purpose of this study is to explore the coping methods of adolescents on a harmful environment including a business center, media, drug, as well, ecological context as family, school, peer, and community. The basic assumptions are to develop self-...
The purpose of this study is to explore the coping methods of adolescents on a harmful environment including a business center, media, drug, as well, ecological context as family, school, peer, and community. The basic assumptions are to develop self-improvement abilities of adolescents about harmful environment as reinforce a protective factors as not remove a risk factors influencing risk behavior. Protective factors as such a positive coping strategies, a self-efficacy, a monitoring and controlling of parent, a communication with parent, a positive perception on school, and a friendly peer relation have a function that buffering the negative influence of risk factors and facilitating the resilience of adolescents. Adolescents are influenced by more protective factors do a fewer risk behavior, and transfer this risk behavior to social functioning. These will do the positive coping to harmful environment in their ecological contexts. As well, the effort for exploration and treatment these protective factors have higher educational value, and facilitate the positive development of adolescents. And this attempt will have better effects than a harmful environment policies depending on the administration and the justice.