Abstract:
Drug preventive behavior is a significant factor to protect people from involving drugs.
The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing drug preventive behavior among
high school students. Research participants were 108 high school students in Tha Mai district,
Chantaburi province. Data were collected from May to July 2017. Instruments used for data
collection included Personal Information Questionnaire, Attitude Toward Drug use Questionnaire,
Peer Group Influencing Questionnaire, Family Engagement Questionnaire, Media Exposure
Behavior with Critical Thinking Questionnaire, Revise Life Orientation Scale, Resilience
Questionnaire, and Drug Preventive Behavior Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by descriptive
statistic, Peasons product moment correlation coefficient, and Stepwise multiple regression.
Result revealed that drug preventive behavior was at a high level ( = 3.90, SD = 8.5).
The significant predicting factors were resilience, media exposure behavior with critical thinking,
and attitude toward drug use (ß = .81, p< .001; ß = .23, p< .05; ß = -.29, p< .05 respectively).
The percentage of total variance explained by these factors among students was 61.5 (R
2
= .615,
Adjust R
2
= .604, F =4.840, p< .001)
The finding suggested that personnel who works with adolescents, nurses, especially,
mental health and psychiatric nurses, should concern about promoting resilience, media exposure
behavior with critical thinking, and attitude toward drug use in order to prevent substance use
among students.