| Summary: | The purpose of this research is to compare the risk factor for adolescent and youth involved with substance abuse in Pontian Johor. In this study, the risk factors were divided into two categories which is internal and external factor. The instrument has been administered to 47 male adolescents and youths that have experienced in substance abuse. The objective of this research is to identify the risk factors that involve demographic, spiritual, personality, knowledge, behaviors, emotions, family, peers, community and lastly home environments factors that promote substance abuse. The data survey was taken from Caring Community House (CCH) Pontian, under Agensi Antidadah Kebangsaan (AADK) administration. The analysis used in this study involves descriptive and inferential analysis such as ANOVA and Regression. The results for the first hypothesis shows the highest descriptive analysis for jobs is laborer, and for education levels is UPSR. Self background showed that majority of the respondent is single and having married parents. For substance abuse, cannabis is showed as the most frequent drug the respondent used. The results for the first hypothesis shows the descriptive analysis involving mean and standard deviation for demographic factors such as occupational, family income, education background, marriage status, family status, and the type substance that the subject taken before. For second hypothesis, demographic factors that are dominant for internal risk factors is education factor, while for external factors, there is no significant or dominant factors can be determined. The third hypothesis shows that only educational factors have significant different for both internal and external risk factors. For the last hypothesis showed that there was no significant dominant dimension factor for internal and external risk factors. Implications for this study can be as guide for AADK to planning and create a prevention program for the youth populations. Also, by enhancing and strengthen the importance of the risk factors, the scope can be expand to family, school and community in order to create more awareness among younger generation Malaysia.
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