The Effectiveness of Perceived Self-Efficacy Program for Assisting Adolescences Towards Behavioral of Avoiding Narcotics

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Abstract:
Introduction: It is a place of globalization that has a big effect on every unit of the country. People have more stress from living the modern life. Many people, including teenagers, chose alternative way or relieving stress by using addictive substances and alcohol because adolescence is age that want to try, to know, to Challenge and Believe in their friends. The CAUSAL MODEL of risk factors and immune factors found that the causal factor as an immune factor avoids the drug by Self-esteem, knowledge of drug, Self-control, life skill doing by their self. The program was based on Bandura. Objective: This reseach was to compare knowledge before and after received a perceived self-efficacy program. Methods: The Quasi-experimental research two group pretest posttest design were to this samples were 60 risk adolescents by sampling. The questionnaires were tested for content validity by 3 experts. The reliability of two instruments were reported by using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient as of 0.78, 0.87, 0.88 and 0.88 respectively. The data was also analyzed using descriptive statistics; percentages, means and standard deviation. paired-t-test. Result revealed that : The experimental group had a statistically
significant score on Self-Efficacy higher than the control group at the .01 significance level. The experimental group had statistically significant scores on Behavior Avoiding Narcotics and Knowledge and Attitude, higher than the control group at the .01 significance level. Conclusion: Perceived Self-Efficacy Program can increase effectiveness of knowledge about narcotics and towards behavioral of avoiding narcotics.