Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study

The former drug addicts’ abilities to overcome all obstacle in life while achieving life that is free from drugs would be influenced by self-efficacy. It means that the more a former addicts is assures of himself and his future, the wider his opportunity to succeed in recovering from drugs’ effect....

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Fauziah, Kumar, Naresh, Abu Samah, Bahaman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Medwell Journals 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22747/1/Self.pdf
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author Ibrahim, Fauziah
Kumar, Naresh
Abu Samah, Bahaman
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Kumar, Naresh
Abu Samah, Bahaman
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description The former drug addicts’ abilities to overcome all obstacle in life while achieving life that is free from drugs would be influenced by self-efficacy. It means that the more a former addicts is assures of himself and his future, the wider his opportunity to succeed in recovering from drugs’ effect. On that note, this research was done to identify the level of self-efficacy amongst relapsed addicts and to identify the relationships between addicts self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendencies. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS for windows. The sample consisted of 400 drug addicts on relapse cases which were selected through the stratified random sampling and systematic random sampling method from eight Narcotic Rehabilitation Centers (NRC) throughout Peninsular, Malaysia. This research was conducted using quantitative cross-sectional survey design. The level of addicts’ self-efficacy were measured using General Efficacy Scale (GES) with strong reliability rate at 856. The date gathered was analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and descriptive tests. The results showed 86.3% respondents showed moderate self efficacy level to low. The results from Pearson correlation tests found that there is negative, strong and significant relationship between self-efficacy ( r = -0.790; p<0.05) with relapsed addiction. These results gave the impression that low self-efficacy factor can give negative effect to the addicts in order for them to continue to be free from drugs, especially when they facing life challenges and their surroundings after they were released from drug rehabilitation centers.
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spelling upm.eprints-227472015-09-23T03:46:17Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22747/ Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study Ibrahim, Fauziah Kumar, Naresh Abu Samah, Bahaman The former drug addicts’ abilities to overcome all obstacle in life while achieving life that is free from drugs would be influenced by self-efficacy. It means that the more a former addicts is assures of himself and his future, the wider his opportunity to succeed in recovering from drugs’ effect. On that note, this research was done to identify the level of self-efficacy amongst relapsed addicts and to identify the relationships between addicts self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendencies. Data collected were analyzed using SPSS for windows. The sample consisted of 400 drug addicts on relapse cases which were selected through the stratified random sampling and systematic random sampling method from eight Narcotic Rehabilitation Centers (NRC) throughout Peninsular, Malaysia. This research was conducted using quantitative cross-sectional survey design. The level of addicts’ self-efficacy were measured using General Efficacy Scale (GES) with strong reliability rate at 856. The date gathered was analyzed using Pearson correlation analysis and descriptive tests. The results showed 86.3% respondents showed moderate self efficacy level to low. The results from Pearson correlation tests found that there is negative, strong and significant relationship between self-efficacy ( r = -0.790; p<0.05) with relapsed addiction. These results gave the impression that low self-efficacy factor can give negative effect to the addicts in order for them to continue to be free from drugs, especially when they facing life challenges and their surroundings after they were released from drug rehabilitation centers. Medwell Journals 2011 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/22747/1/Self.pdf Ibrahim, Fauziah and Kumar, Naresh and Abu Samah, Bahaman (2011) Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study. The Social Sciences, 6 (4). pp. 277-282. ISSN 1818-5800; ESSN: 1993-6125 http://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=sscience.2011.277.282 10.3923/sscience.2011.277.282
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title_fullStr Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study
title_full_unstemmed Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study
title_short Self-efficacy and relapsed addiction tendency : an empirical study
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