Annual of social work, Vol. 12 No. 2, 2005.
Original scientific paper
RELIGIOSITY, FAMILY FACTORS AND DRUG ABUSE BY ADOLESCENTS
Zrinka Greblo
Abstract
The general aim of the research was to examine the relation between family factors and personal religiosity with the consumption of psychoactive substances. The research was conducted on 253 respondents, 3rd grade students (juniors) of general and mathematic grammar schools of Zagreb. The research results warn of the widespread availability of drugs that are less and less connected with material possibilities. Although both consumers and non-consumers estimate the positive behaviour of parents as more frequent and negative behaviour of parents as less frequent, the groups differ in the perception of mother's indifference – neglect, in which dimension consumers show higher results. Apart from the mentioned dimension of the perceived parental attitude, the ritual dimension of religiosity was separated as the most efficient predictor of the frequency of consumption of psychoactive substances related to cannabis. It has been determined that consumers who achieve higher scores in the ritual dimension of religiosity and lower scores on the subscale of perceived mother's indifference – neglect, use drugs less frequently. The results according to the variables of the ritual dimension of religiosity and the perception of the material status of the family enable the optimum differentiation between the members of the groups of consumers and non-consumers, where non-consumers express the ritual dimension of religiosity to a larger extent, and estimate their material status as lower. Religiosity is connected with a series of psychosocial factors that reduce the probability of the consumption of psychoactive substances, and it acts protectively alongside with the control of the family factors.
Keywords
religiosity; perception of parental acceptance – rejection; drug abuse; adolescents
Hrčak ID:
2016
URI
Publication date:
13.1.2006.
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