Parental bonding, family communication, perceived risk and attitude towards drug use in university students
| dc.contributor.author | Nageena Imran | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-25T14:43:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-25T14:43:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/12794 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | UMT Lahore | |
| dc.title | Parental bonding, family communication, perceived risk and attitude towards drug use in university students | |
| dc.type | Thesis |