PERSONALITY AND PEER RELATIONS AS PREDICTORS OF ADOLESCENT ALCOHOLISM
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The study investigated personality and peer relation as predictors of Alcoholism among adolescents, drawn the population of students from Madonna university. The instrument used for the study was by Five Inventory (BFI) and mac Andrew Alcoholism Scale (MAS) and Index of peer relation scale and mac And as measuring instrument. Across sectional survey research design was adopted using a sample of 200 participants (95) male and the (105) females, their age ranged from 18-20, with a mean of 99.42, and standard deviation of 3.48. the result showed that the hypotheses which stated that peer relation will significantly predict adolescent alcoholism was rejected at B = .101, t = .113, at 0.01. Thus implies that the higher the peer relation the lower the adolescent, the lower adolescent alcoholism. The result on personality revealed that hypotheses 1,3 ad 5 did no significantly predicted adolescene alcoholism while hypotheses 2 and 4 significantly predicted adolescence Alcoholism according to the statistical analysis on the result.
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