Effectiveness of Resilience enhancing Program on Drinking Refusal Self-efficacy among Early adolescence Saiyok district, Kanchanaburi province

Abstract

This quasi-experimental aimed to compare the Resilience on Drinking Refusal Self-efficacy among Early adolescence between before and after attending the Resilience enhancing Program and to compare Resilience and Self-efficacy among Early adolescence between a group that attending the Resilience enhancing Program and a group which does not attending Resilience enhancing. The pretest-posttest design was used in this study. The samples were early adolescence aged 10 - 14 years old in Secondary school under the Secondary Educational Service area of Kanchanaburi Province. There were 23 people in each experimental group and a control group, a total of 46 people. Research instruments included the Resilience enhancing Program that was applied from the Grotberg resilience model, the Resilience self-assessment questionnaire and the assessment of Self-efficacy in alcohol refusal. Data were collected before and after attending the program ended. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze general personal information such as frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The inference statistics were used to the compared difference between resilience and self-efficacy including pair t-test and independent t-test.    

The results of this study found that there was a statistically significant increase in the mean resilience score and the perceived self-efficacy score for alcohol refusal in the experimental group (p-value < .05) (t= -5.025, p < .001 and t=-3.707, p=.001, respectively) and mean resilience and self-efficacy in refusal drinking alcohol scores after participating in the program in the experimental group increased significantly at the .05 level (t=3.37, p=.002, and t=2.53, p=.015, respectively).

The research recommendation is that the resilience approaches to the prevention of alcohol consumption should be applied in policy to implement in schools to expand the effect of Resilience enhancing programs on the perception of self-efficacy in refusing to drink alcohol in early adolescence. This will result in early adolescence being refusing to drink alcohol.