Youth Attitudes towards the Drug Phenomenon and the Effectiveness of counselling in a Self-Deployable Approach to Development of the Rejecting Trend (Study in the Development Approach)

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the attitudes of young people towards drugs in general, and differences in trends according to variables (gender, type of specialization, age). And identify the effectiveness of the counseling in the development of rejecting the drug trend. The research methodology was designed according to the descriptive and experimental approaches Two tools were developed in the research: the first tool (the attitudes scale) and the second tool (the self-capacity extension program) . The first tool was distributed on a random sample of 155 young people to collect and measure information about attitudes. After that, the steps of the second instrument were carried out on a sample whose grades were in the lowest quarters according to the first tool. The results of the research showed that the attitudes of youth towards drugs was a negative attitudes, and the absence of differences according to the gender variable in general and in the dimensions of emotional and behavioral . There was a statistically significant difference in the cognitive dimension of the negative attitudes in favor of females . The results showed that there were no differences according to the variable of specialization, but showed significant differences according to the age variable. The results showed the effectiveness of the extension program in developing the negative trend towards drugs .