Abstract:
Adolescence now a day has tendency to alcohol drinking on drowned age, which is the main factor to involve with increase alcohol drinking until adulthood. The purpose of this predictive correlational research was to study the factors of discriminants efficiency alcohol drinking and refuse alcohol drinking among secondary school students, upper-southern region. The study sample included of 420 secondary school students age between 12-15 years. The samples were selected by simple random sampling. The instruments included positive alcohol expectancies, drinking refusal self-efficacy, drinking motive, negative alcohol expectancies, family functioning, and perceived peer supports questionnaires. All questionnaires were tested for content validity by a panel of five experts. The reliability results using Alpha Cronbachs of the questionnaires were .70, .89, .93, .91, .87, and .80, respectively. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Pearsons product moment correlation, and discriminants analysis. The result revealed that: 1. Negative alcohol expectancies, drinking refusal self-efficacy, and perceived peer supports were negatively related to alcohol drinking among secondary school students (r = -.40, -.23, and -.16, respectively). Drinking motive and positive alcohol expectancies were positively related to alcohol drinking among secondary school students (r = .40, and .27, p < .05, respectively). While, family functioning was not related to alcohol drinking among secondary school students. 2. Drinking motive, negative alcohol expectancies, positive alcohol expectancies, drinking refusal self-efficacy, perceived peer supports and family functioning were significantly discriminants efficiency explained 25.5 % and predicting corrected about 72.4 % (Canonical correlation = .505, p < .05).