Parental bonding, family communication, perceived risk and attitude towards drug use in university students
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2021
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between parental bonding, family
communication, perception of risks associated with drug abuse, and the attitudes
developed to drug use that greatly contribute in the increasing rates of drug addiction
in students now a days. It was hypothesized that parental bonding, family
communication and perceived risk have a significant relationship with attitude
towards drug use. A quantitative study was carried out for this research in which a
correlational research design was used. A purposive, sampling technique was used to
select the participants from a private and a government university, with age range of
18 – 28 years (M= 25.3, SD= 2.5). Parental Bonding Instrument (Parker, 1979),
Family Communication Scale (Olsen et.al., 2004), Perception of Risk Associated with
Drug Abuse (EMCDDA, 2015) and Attitude towards Drug Abuse (EMCDDA, 2015)
were the instruments used in the study. Results revealed that family communication
and perception of risk were significantly correlated with the attitude towards drug use.
Results revealed that there was a significant negative correlation of family
communication with attitude of students towards drug abuse and a significant positive
correlation of perception of risk of students towards drug abuse. Furthermore, the
level of education of the mother and whether or not student had ever used drugs was
significantly positively correlated with the attitude towards drug abuse. This study
will help create awareness for the neglected parents in the society to develop an
effective parent- child relationship to nullify the developing drug addiction problems
in young adolescents in Pakistan.