Session

Psychology Sciences

Description

Adolescence is a fragile period in which the person passes from the childhood to the adulthood. During this period the adolescent passes through different challenges. Adolescent has to deal with physical, physiological, emotional, cognitive, social and other changes, and during his journey family as a social factor has the most important part, because with their support they help the adolescent to overcome all the difficulties on his way. Because of the function and the importance that family has over the adolescent, in this research we have measured the correlation between family cohesion and the attitudes towards psychoactive drugs, because as we know adolescents are usually more likely to use psychoactive drugs. The research has been applied to 116 subjects, whose age is between 17 and 18 years old. As a measure instruments for the research are used Kobi test for family cohesion, and a questionnaire that measures the attitudes towards psychoactive drugs. The obtained results has shown that exists a negative correlation between family cohesion and positive attitudes towards psychoactive drugs, which means that the adolescents that have high family cohesion, don’t have positive attitudes towards psychoactive drugs.

Keywords:

family cohesion, attitudes, adolescent, psychoactive drugs

Session Chair

Elmedina Çesko

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-66-0

First Page

115

Last Page

119

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 5:00 PM

End Date

28-10-2017 6:30 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.328

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Family cohesion as important factor for attitudes towards psychoactive drugs in adolescence

Durres, Albania

Adolescence is a fragile period in which the person passes from the childhood to the adulthood. During this period the adolescent passes through different challenges. Adolescent has to deal with physical, physiological, emotional, cognitive, social and other changes, and during his journey family as a social factor has the most important part, because with their support they help the adolescent to overcome all the difficulties on his way. Because of the function and the importance that family has over the adolescent, in this research we have measured the correlation between family cohesion and the attitudes towards psychoactive drugs, because as we know adolescents are usually more likely to use psychoactive drugs. The research has been applied to 116 subjects, whose age is between 17 and 18 years old. As a measure instruments for the research are used Kobi test for family cohesion, and a questionnaire that measures the attitudes towards psychoactive drugs. The obtained results has shown that exists a negative correlation between family cohesion and positive attitudes towards psychoactive drugs, which means that the adolescents that have high family cohesion, don’t have positive attitudes towards psychoactive drugs.