עמדות הנוער הערבי בישראל מהסיכון שבשימוש בחומרים פסיכו-אקטיביים

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine the attitudes of Arab youth towards the risk of
psycho -active drug use, the effect of socio-demographic characteristics and system
family relation on those attitudes 300 teenagers aged 16-18 from five towns from three
regions, north, center and south participated in the research and filled self-report
questionnaire . The selected towns represent the geographical spreading of the Arab
population, town type, and the socio-economic status. The findings study indicate that
teenagers consider a high risk to the use of psycho-active drugs, specially cigarettes that
they attribute a high-intermediate risk. Moreover, the socio-demographic variables
affecting the teens' attitudes toward the risk in using psycho-active drugs are gender and
religiosity. Furthermore, the family coherence influences the risk perception in the use
of some of the psycho-active drugs, in contrast to the complete effect of the family
adjustment on all the group of psycho-active drugs The theoretical and applicative
implications of the findings are discussed