Peer and family influence on adolescent drug addicts

Masters Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, grade: A, course: Msc, language: English, abstract: The aim of the present study was to find out the family and peer influences on adolescent drug addicts. The sample comprised of 110 adolescent (male) taken from the different areas of Khyber Pkhtoonkhwa. The instruments used were: (i) Index Of Family Relation (IFR). It consisted of a 5- point Likert type scale with 17 items. Seven items were positively coded, i.e. 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 14 16 & 17 and 10 were negatively coded. (ii) Index Of Peer Relation (IPR). It comprised of a 5 point Likert scale with 13 items. Eleven were positively coded and 2 items (4 &5) were negative. For the statistical analysis Mean, Stander Deviation and t-value was calculated that t-test were used to analyze the relationship of high and low income group of addicts with their peers and with their family. The correlation between family influence and friends influenced on the addicts was checked. The results indicated that lower income groups of adolescent drug addicts have poor relationships with their family and strong relationship with their peers. Low income group of addicts have more intrafamilial problem then the high income group of addicts. The alpha reliability of both scales was also calculated. The reliability of IFR is .95 and reliability of IPR is .7