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Peer Pressure and the Use of Drugs among University Students

Peer relationships have a key role in the adolescence period with consequences such as the adolescents need to do all the things done by their peers, and this can be seen in the way they behave based on decisions they make. Peer pressure, in a negative context, can be done in various ways that benefit from the characteristics of growing adolescents, who are often insecure and need a sense of acceptance and belonging. Based on the aforementioned, the aim of this research is to determine the correlation between the use of drugs by which they want to experience what the rest of the peer group members already have and the characteristics of peer pressure among university students along with their predictive value. The purpose of the research is related to planning adequate interventions for students who have diffi- culties to oppose negative peer pressure and other difficulties occurring in peer relationships, as well as for students who have problems with the abuse of addictive substances in the widest sense. Results show that the items When I hang out with people who take drugs I become tempted to try them myself, My companions influence my sexual behaviour and I am afraid I will appear stupid in front of my companions due to my opinion or behaviour mostly represent a statistically significant contribution to the decision about using drugs to experience the feeling which the rest of the peer group has. The value of the results, besides obtaining valuable new indicators based on scientific research methods, is that they offer guidelines for prevention and intervention in cases of various peer problems and problems with the abuse of addictive substances.

Drug Abuse, Peers, Pressure, University Students

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