Konzumiranje alkoholnih pića i doživljaj škole
Alcohol Abuse and School Experience

Summary/Abstract: This paper is part of scientific project named „Monitoring the abuse of addiction substances in the population of secondary school students in Dubrovačko-neretvanska county“. Since 2001 Dubrovačko-neretvanska County Institute for Public Health has implemented (conducted) and financed the above mentioned project. The research sample consists of representative sample of all secondary schools’ students in Dubrovačko-neretvanska county who anonymously filled in the questionnaire „How are you? “ (autor: Petar Bezinović) in spring 2006 (N = 1485). The research focus was to analyze the connection of alcohol abuse and the experience of school environment as well as school obligations. The research aim was to analyze the connection between alcohol abuse and school environment. This would help us detect possible predictor values of the young functioning in school, in order to estimate the risk of their growth and development. The findings suggest that the school environment and school obligations are statistically significantly related to alcohol abuse. The more serious forms of alcohol abuse are connected with less favorable experience of the school environment and with lower engagement in fulfilling the school obligations. In short, on the bases of the youth’s functioning in school, it is possible to foresee growing up risk factors and prevent the possible alcohol abuse. That, however, implies thorough changes in Croatian education system

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