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dc.contributor.authorSserwanja, Joshua
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-14T08:49:48Z
dc.date.available2020-01-14T08:49:48Z
dc.date.issued2019-08
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/8458
dc.descriptionA Dissertation Submitted to the School of Psychology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Bachelor of Community Psychology Degree of Makerere Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation presents a full account of the study carried out on Peer Pressure, Locus of Control and Substance Abuse among Adolescents in Kampala district.The main objectives of this study were; to establish if there is any association between peer pressure and adolescent substance abuse, to find out whether there is any association between locus of control and substance abuse and to examine whether there is any association between peer pressure and locus of control among the adolescents.In order to achieve the above objectives a well-structured questionnaire was administered to the population of interest and the data obtained was analyzed using Ms-excel and SPSS data analysis tools of frequency tables and Pearson correlation.The positive results of this study are that the proportion of respondents who have fallen victims of substance abuse is relatively small and that there is a strong internal locus of control.Also results showed that there is moderate peer pressure Evidence on religion shows that most of the respondents were Catholic and majority of them were aged between 15-19 years.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMakerere Universityen_US
dc.subjectPeer pressureen_US
dc.subjectLocus of controlen_US
dc.subjectSubstance abuseen_US
dc.subjectAdolescentsen_US
dc.subjectKampal Districten_US
dc.titlePeer pressure, locus of control and substance abuse among adolescentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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