Weerawan  sudheerakrailas.  1993.  Variables Relating to Anti- Drug Addiction of the Secondary  School students
in Bangkok.  Dissertation, M.S. (Behavioral Science) 
Behavioral Science  Research Institute. 


               This study  was aimed to investigate the relationships, predictability and variance of  6 variables of a number
of unisex high school students  in Bangkok. Those variables 
were personal backgrounds and bio-soical  characteristics, self-esteem, mental health, assertiveness,  attitudes towards
drug addiction and rejection of peer compliance  of the students. Six hundred samples used in this study, were students
who enrolled in grades 8 
and 11 of the  1991 academic year in secondary schools under the Department of General Education. 
           The instruments used to gather data consisted of measurement format, background and bio-social
measurement format, general knowledge in narcotic drug measurement format, self-esteem measurement format, mental
health meassurement format, 
assertiveness measurement format, test of attitudes towards drug addiction and also the measurement format for peer
group rejection toward narcotic drug abuse compliance. Statistics employed for data analysis were composed of multiple
correlation coefficients, stepwise multiple regression, three way analysis of variance and Sheffe' comparesion test. 
            The findings of this study were as follows: 
            1.  There was a positive relation between the attitudes towards drug addiction  and 
the group of variables of self-esteem, mental health and assertiveness at the significance level 
of .01. 
            2.  There was a positive relation between "the peer group rejection toward narcotic drug abuse compliance"
variable and the group of variables of self-esteem, mental health and assertiveness at the significance level of .01. 
            3.  The only variable of self-esteem could help predict the attitude toward drug addiction at the significance level
of .01  (with a predictabiltiy rate at 23 percent). 
            4.  The variable group of attitudes toward drug addiction, general knowledge  in 
narcotic drug and self-esteem could predict the level of peer group compliance rejection within the student group at the
significance level of .01  (with the perdictability rate at 41.27, 
20.89  and  15.23  percent respectively). 
            5.  Some of the variables of attitudes toward drug addiction, self-esteem, general knowledge in narcotic drug,
family economic level, and mental health of the samples could help predict level of peer group compliance rejection,
particularly within the groups of the male and female students of grade 11  whose economic background of their families
was high. the significance level was at .01. 
            6.  A higher number of female students at grade 8 with moderate level of family income, was found with bad
mental health and less assertiveness than other groups. 
            7.  The number of male students with low level of general knowledge in narcotic drug, showed their attitudes
towards drug addiction in a negative form less than other 
groups. 
            8.  The male students at grade 8 and 11with low level of kmowledge in narcotic drug, 
had a rejection level to peer group compliance lower than other groups. 

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