Protective factors and perception towars the alcohol consumption in adolescents

Abstract

This is a correlational descriptive type investigation, its objective was to determine the existing relationship between the protective factors and the perception of alcohol consumption in Basic School Third Stage adolescents in the “Unidad Educativa Campo Solo” San Diego, Carabobo state, Venezuela, academic year 2003-2004. Population object of the study was composed by 7th, 8th and 9th year adolescent students, from this population a 20% stratified random probabilistic sample was obtained. Two questionnaire type instruments were used for data collection, one for protective factors identification and the other referred to the perception of adolescent towards alcohol consumption. Collected data was analyzed using absolute and relative frequencies and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Results show that a weak positive correlation between the perception of the referred alcohol consumption to knowledge of the damage and between the protective factors in the average student and the perception of the alcohol consumption exists, also I demonstrate a weak negative correlation between the protective motivation and factors; and the personal and communitarian protective factors of the alcohol consumption with the perception ofthe consumption of the alcohol consumption, which indicates that they do not have relation between if, which could be explained by the presence of factors of risk instead of protective factors in the studied sample.