Undergraduate students' motivations for the consumption of legal drugs.
نویسندگان
چکیده
This qualitative research aimed at identifying conceptions held by undergraduate students regarding the term motivation, and motives leading them to the consumption of legal drugs. Data were collected through a questionnaire with four open questions, applied to 15 students of a public university in the central region of Mexico. In order to perform the data analysis, answers were classified in two categories: a) Undergraduate students' conceptions regarding the term motivation and b) Undergraduate students' conceptions regarding the motives for consumption. Such analysis indicated that students identify two types of motivations: external and internal. The external motivation includes family, mass media and friends; whereas internal motivation includes personal characteristics, need of belonging, curiosity, pleasure and idleness.
منابع مشابه
A closer look at readiness to change in the relationship between social desirability and drinking among young adults
Reducing drinking prevalence among undergraduates is a primary public health goal [1-4]. Most undergraduate students are not of legal drinking age (21 in the U.S.), however, problematic drinking is often reported between ages 18-21 [5]. The literature suggests that college students report heavy drinking at higher prevalence rates relative to non-college peers [6]. Additionally, almost 80% of un...
متن کاملFactors Affecting Entrepreneurial Motivation of Agricultural Students at Razi University
The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting entrepreneurial motivations of agricultural students at Razi University. Statistical population of this study consisted of all agricultural undergraduate students (senior) (N=186), that 164 of them were selected as research sample using proportionate stratified sampling method. The main instrument in this study was questionnair...
متن کاملAlcohol Mixed with Energy Drinks: Consumption Patterns and Motivations for Use in U.S. College Students
Binge drinking in college students is widespread and known to cause significant harms and health hazards for the drinker. One factor that may be exacerbating hazardous drinking in young people is the new popular trend of consuming alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED). However, rates of AmED use and motivations for AmED consumption in college students have not been well established. In this s...
متن کاملDrugs use and risk behavior in a university community.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate drug use and risk behaviors among students of the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador. To evaluate this issue, we used the questionnaire "Youth Risk Behavior Survey" (YRBS). The study sample consisted of 751 undergraduate students: 328 (44%) male and 423 (56%) female. Average age was 20 years old and 85,5% of the students were single. Alcohol, tobacco and...
متن کاملCollege Students' Drinking and Posting About Alcohol: Forwarding a Model of Motivations, Behaviors, and Consequences.
College drinking continues to remain a public health problem that has been exacerbated by alcohol-related posts on social networking sites (SNSs). Although existing research has linked alcohol consumption, alcohol posts, and adverse consequences to one another, comprehensive explanations for these associations have been largely unexplored. Thus, we reasoned that students' personal motivations (...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Revista latino-americana de enfermagem
دوره 16 Spec No شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008