Stress, Social Support and substance abuse among University Students.
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2022-11-08Author
Kayanga, Paul Ponsiano
Bisaso, Ronald Kigongo
Muyanja, Andrew
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This study investigates the relationship between stress social support and substance abuse among
University students the objectives of this study focused on examining the relationship between
stress and social support, the relationship between stress and substance abuse and well as the
relationship between social support and substance abuse. Makerere university population was
taken as our study population and an estimated study population of 40000 students was used.
Using the sampling table developed by Krejcie and Morgan (1970) a sample size of 380
participants was selected out of the total population. An accidental sampling technique was used
to collect the data and using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) data was analyzed
to give results. A Pearson’s correlation was used to test the hypothesis. Our study comprised of
more male participants s within average of 54.2% than the female participants with an average of
45.5%. Many participants were aged 19 to 23 years. The study results implied that there is a
significant relationship between stress and social support among university students (r= -.109,
P=.034<0.05). Furthermore, there’s also a significant relation between tress and substance abuse
among university student (r=.127, P=.014<0.05). however, there’s no significant relationship
between substance abuse and social support (r=-.055, P=.284>0.05). In a nutshell, stress has a
significant destructive impact in the lives of university students as it’s a major reason for their
involvement in substance abuse due to poor coping strategies of stress. However, with influence
form good social support networks among university students, stress van be amicably handled as
well as deny a chance of drug or substances to play in the lives of university students. Therefore,
we recommend university student to find good peers for social support as this will help them to
with better coping strategies to overcome stressful events while at the university and as well
engage in substance abuse