This study was carried out to investigate the effect of the amount of stress related to life events and the scale of self-concept on the substance abuse in high school students.
Subjects surveyed for this study consist of 1149 students who are the 1...
This study was carried out to investigate the effect of the amount of stress related to life events and the scale of self-concept on the substance abuse in high school students.
Subjects surveyed for this study consist of 1149 students who are the 1st grade. The adolescent population is different area of Kyong Sang Nam Do.
The data were collected from 13 academic high school students(317boys, 364girls) and 14 vocational high school students(317boys, 249girls) by a Questionnaire survey in March. 1996.
As the criteria of substance abuse are to use the substance once more times last month, 399 students are substance abuser and 750 students are substance non-abuser.
This study uses as a tool' self-concept scale' developed by Song In Sub and' the amount of stress related to life events' developed by Lee pyoug Sook.
The collected data analyzed by frequency, X2, t-test, logistic regression.
The results are as follows.
1. The total score of self-concept of substance abuser group was higher than that of substance non-abuser group (P$lt;0.001).
Class self concept, achievement self concept of substance abuser group were lower than those of substance non-abuser group.
Social self concept of substance abuser group was higher than that of substance non-abuser group.
2. The total score of stress related to life events of substance abuser group was higher than that of substance non-abuser group(P$lt;0.00I). Legal torts, love affairs, health problems were significantly more in substance abuser group.