Related researches on self-esteem and substance abuse of students in a private vocational school in Taipei City

Autor: Mei-Hsia Wang, 王美霞
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
This study was mainly to research on the correlation between self-esteem and substance abuse behavior for students of a certain private vocational high school in Taipei City. The research participants were the students that were random selected from 3 classes of each grade in a certain private vocational high school in Taipei City at the 2nd semester of School Year 2010. The effective samples were 310 students. The research tool was the structured questionnaire which will be filled by each class collectively. Then, the collected data used these following methods, such as the t-Test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson’s Product-moment Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis, to conduct the statistical analysis. The research result was as follows: 1.Among those tested students, 134 students had smoking experience (46.5％), and 67 students (21.6％) smoked every day; 209 students had drinking experience (66.2％), and 8 students (2.6％) drank every day; 35 students (11.3％) had the experience of taking addictive drugs. Twenty eight students (9％) had the experience of taking Ketamine which was the most popular addictive drug; Amphetamine was the next with 10 students (3.2％). In addition, among the research participants, there were 16 students who had the experience of taking more than 2 types of addictive drugs, which accounted for 46％ of those whom took addictive drugs. 2.Self-esteem of the research participants tended to be negative: the total average score of self-esteem was 3.44; the average score of academic self-esteem was 3.35; the average score of physical self-esteem was 3.42 and the average score of family self-esteem was 3.40 (lower than standard deviation 3.5) which tended to be negative; while the average score of social self-esteem was 3.65 which tended to be positive. 3.The relationship between society demography and self-esteem, by One-way ANOVA analysis showed that among the research participants: girls; 12 graders; the top one-third (1/3) academic achievement and complete family structure had higher score in the category of overall self-esteem; girls, the top one-third (1/3) academic achievement and incomplete family structure had higher score in the category of academic self-esteem; boys, 12 graders, the top one-third (1/3) academic achievement and whose father is a professional had higher score in the category of physical self-esteem; however, whose mother has education background under junior high school, then they had lower score in the category of physical self-esteem; 12 graders, girls, the top one-third (1/3) academic achievement and complete family structure, and whose parents are professionals had higher score in the category of social self-esteem; and Grade 12 students, the top one-third (1/3) academic achievement and complete family structure had higher score in the category of family self-esteem. 4.The relationship between society demography and addictive drug use, by One-way ANOVA analysis showed among the research participants, boys and the bottom one-third (1/3) academic achievement were the majority with having the smoking behavior; boys and 11 graders were the majority with having drinking behavior; boys, 11 graders, the bottom one-third (1/3) academic achievement and incomplete family structure, and whose father’s education background is vocational high school or high school had more behaviors of taking addictive drugs. 5.The correlation between substance abuse behavior and self-esteem by Pearson’s Product-moment Correlation Analysis showed research participant’s smoking behavior and the overall self-esteem, academic self-esteem and family self-esteem showed a negative correlation; as well as a negative correlation between the drinking behavior and the overall self-esteem, academic self-esteem, physical self-esteem and family self-esteem; in addition, addictive drugs taking behavior and the overall self-esteem, academic self-esteem, social self-esteem and family self-esteem also showed a negative correlation. 6.The prediction of society demography to self-esteem, by Multiple Regression Analysis showed that the explanation for the total average self-esteem was 14.3%; participant’s grade, academic achievement were the variables to the prediction of the total average self-esteem; the explanation for the academic self-esteem was 20%: participant’s grade, academic achievement and father’s occupation were the significant variables to the prediction of the academic self-esteem; the explanation for the physical self-esteem was 10.3%: gender and participant’s grade were the significant variables to the prediction of physical self-esteem; the explanation for the social self-esteem was 12.5%: participant’s grade, academic achievement and father’s occupation were the significant variables to the prediction of social self-esteem; the explanation for the family self-esteem was 12.8%; participant’s grade and academic achievement were the significant variables to the prediction of the family self-esteem. 7.The prediction of society demography and self-esteem to substance abuse behavior by Multiple Regression Analysis showed that the explanation for the smoking behavior was 12.8%; gender, family structure, academic self-esteem and social self-esteem were the significant variables to the prediction of smoking behavior; the explanation for the drinking behavior was 27.6%; participant’s grade, family structure, mother’s education, academic self-esteem and social self-esteem were the significant variables to the prediction of the drinking behavior; the explanation for the addictive drug use was 14.4%; family self-esteem was the significant variables to the prediction of the addictive drug use. In accordance with the research result, the researcher proposes some education and research suggestions as the reference to schools with implementing the prevention of the substance abuse, and reducing the harm of taking addictive substance for adolescent.
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