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Home environment and peer relations of addicted and nonaddicted university students
1National Institute of Psychology, Centre of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan.
Abstract:
This study was designed to examine the differences between addicted and nonaddicted university students on measures of home environment and peer relations. Participants were 45 addicts and 45 nonaddicts with mean ages of 23 years drawn from three Pakistani universities located in Islamabad, Lahore, and Peshawar. The two groups were matched for age, gender, education, area of residence, and marital status. A booklet containing an Index of Family Relations and a Peer Relations Questionnaire was administered. Results showed that the addicts perceived more stress in their families than the non-addicts did. Family income of the addicts was greater than that of the nonaddicts. Addicts were under greater peer influence and had more deviant and drug-using friends than the nonaddicts.
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