Peer pressure, locus of control and substance abuse in adolescents

Abstract

This report presents a full account of the study carried out on, peer pressure locus of control and substance abuse among adolescents in Kampala. The report comprises of five chapters, namely; introduction, literature review, methodology, results and finally discussions, conclusion and recommendations. The main objectives of this study were; to find the relationship between peer pressure and substance abuse among youths, to examine find the relationship between locus of control and substance abuse among youths and to examine the relationship between peer pressure and locus of control among the youths. In order to achieve the above objectives a well-structured questionnaire was administered to the population of interest and the data obtained was analysed using Ms-excel and SPSS data analysis tools of frequency tables, ANOVA and Pearson correlation. The positive results of this study are that the proportion of respondents who have fallen victims of substance abuse is relatively 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 born again and majority of them were aged between 15-19 years