Author(s): M.P. Ryabov
Journal: Psihologičeskaâ Nauka i Obrazovanie
ISSN 2074-5885
Issue: 2;
Start page: 228;
Date: 2013;
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Keywords: prevention of substance abuse in adolescents | information approach | social ideas about the drug harm | cognitive component of social representations | susceptibility to drug addiction | purpose of life orientations
ABSTRACT
We argue the need of development and implementation of informational programs to focus drug prevention in adolescents due to the fact that the researchers neglected the distortion of knowledge and ideas about the consequences of drug use. The results of the program aimed at change the cognitive component of social representations of teenagers about taking drugs are presented. The program implemented in general education school is based on informational approach: a video is shown about the consequences of drug use on human health and life. The study involved 158 adolescents aged 15 to 18 years, students of 9th and 11th grades. As a result of the program, we recorded a significant reduction in the desire of teens to try drugs, their increased knowledge about the consequences of drug use, change in the hierarchy of consequences of initiation to drugs important for adolescents, and their life orientations. We identified and described age-and gender-specific impact of the program on the study parameters.
Journal: Psihologičeskaâ Nauka i Obrazovanie
ISSN 2074-5885
Issue: 2;
Start page: 228;
Date: 2013;
VIEW PDF
DOWNLOAD PDF Original pageKeywords: prevention of substance abuse in adolescents | information approach | social ideas about the drug harm | cognitive component of social representations | susceptibility to drug addiction | purpose of life orientations
ABSTRACT
We argue the need of development and implementation of informational programs to focus drug prevention in adolescents due to the fact that the researchers neglected the distortion of knowledge and ideas about the consequences of drug use. The results of the program aimed at change the cognitive component of social representations of teenagers about taking drugs are presented. The program implemented in general education school is based on informational approach: a video is shown about the consequences of drug use on human health and life. The study involved 158 adolescents aged 15 to 18 years, students of 9th and 11th grades. As a result of the program, we recorded a significant reduction in the desire of teens to try drugs, their increased knowledge about the consequences of drug use, change in the hierarchy of consequences of initiation to drugs important for adolescents, and their life orientations. We identified and described age-and gender-specific impact of the program on the study parameters.
