Study on the attitude of high school students towards addictive substances-Take Changhua County as an example

• Main Authors: CHUANG,HANG-CHIEM, 莊行健
• Other Authors: YANG,SHU-LUNG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/983m8j

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治碩士在職專班 === 107 === The main purpose of this research was to explore the relationship among attitude of substance use, affiliative tendency of substance use behavior ,the need of abstinence and evaluation among the senior and vocational high school students. Self-designed questionaire survey method is employed. Eight schools were included, with the total number of valid questionnaires being 838 from 886. The data were analyzed via SPSS 20.0. The main findings of the research were as following： （1）Males tend to ignore the harm of substance use and negative influence of withdrawal symptom, pursuing happiness more than females. It proves that males are born to be more aggressive, curious and seek more stimulation. （2）The more chances they take, the less withdrawal symptom has negative influence on them; the less harm substance use causes. When agreeing that pursue happiness by using substance, they may regard anti-substance education as being ineffective and professional support and compulsory punishment being unnecessary. （3）When receiving the anti-substance education, the participants who view the education as being ineffective would agree that substance use is harmful to health, withdrawal symptom would lead to negative influence and compulsory actions are effective to reduce substance use. （4）Contrary to lower grades students, the higher grades students consider that substance use is harmless. The lower grades students agree that compulsory actions are more effective to forbid substance use. Based on Yale attitude change approach, we infer that the trustworthiness, attractiveness and specialty of the communicators are not enough. The source of communication focuses on one-way terrifying persuasion. As a result, it cannot make teenagers who refuse to use substance identify with the idea. Teenagers may rationalize their behavior due to“pursuit of pleasure”and“personal fable”so that they would ignore the harm of substance use. The findings of the research suggest that anti-substance education should be emphasized rational appeal instead of terrifying persuasion and diversified and customized courses should be offered.