期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：12
页码：1708-1722
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i12/5317
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Malaysia has been overwhelmed with the issues involving adolescent and drug abuse activity nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to conduct Pearson correlation analysis to see the relationship between seven variables in this data set. This current study involves 2894 data from some secondary school students in Malaysia (1357 male, 1537 female) from Kelantan, Pulau Pinang, Kedah, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor, Sabah and Sarawak with range of age 13 to 14 years old. Analysis shows that there is significant positive linear relationship between drug risk behavior and depression and negative linear relationship between drug risk behavior and social support from family, peer and school, family income and resilience. Further studies are needed to replicate this study by using more advance statistical analysis and at the same time further longitudinal studies assessing the interaction between these construct or variables are crucial at different culture background and adolescence development stage because this study only focus on early adolescence stage.
