THE EFFECT OF POSITIVE THINKING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS TRAINING ON STUDENTS’ GENERIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS DRUG ABUSE

Background and Aim : Drug abuse is one of the basic issues correlating with the health of adolescents and young generation. The range of drug abuse is increasing among thisgroup of people daily and in order to control this matter new prevention and treatment programs should be applied. This research has investigated the effect of positive and critical thinking training upon students’ generic attitude towards narcotic abuse. Methods : This is an empirical pretest-posttest study which is performed under the group control. This research focused on Pars Abad town Imam-Khomeini guidance school as the population of the study. 40 people were chosen among them randomly and assigned to controlcontrol and experimental groups. The experimental group was taught positive thinking and critical thinking skills in twelve-1.5 hour- sessions. The scale of Attitude towards drug abuse was used in data collection and MANOVA applied for analyzing the information.Results : The results showed a significant effect of positive thinking and critical thinking skills training on students’ attitude towards drug abuse(p<0/01). Conclusion : Considering that positive thinking and critical thinking skills training enhances students’ negative attitude towards drug, it is recommended that the mentioned programs be included in curriculum

کلیدواژه ها:

Positive Thinking ، Critical Thinking Skill training ، Attitude towards Drug Abuse