Consommation des substances psychoactives et troubles de comportements chez les adolescents du lycée bilingue d’Ebolowa.

Abstract

Adolescent, an aging conducive to the experimentation,used of psychoactive substances and change of behavior. Adolescence is a period of maturation and complexe psychological evolution related to the breakage with childhood. What refers to our topic that is the consumption of psychoactive substances and behavioral disorders in adolescent girls in the Goverment Bilingual High School Ebolowa. This topic posed a problem of violence in schoold due to the consumption of psychoactive substances. This allowed us to high light the main objective of the impact or influence of the consumption of psychoactive substances on the behavior of schooling teenagers. While, we want to show that comsumption of psychoactive substances affect the behavior of adolescents. As a main research Hypothesis, we have retain that the consumption of psychoactive substances determine the behavior of adolescents. We have bien able to bring this main hypothesis into three secondary research Hypotheses. H1: The consumption of cigarette, cannabis determines the behaviour of teenagers. H2: The consumption of alcohol determines the behaviour of adolescents. H3: The consumption of work determines the behaviour of adolescents. To carry out this research, we used the socio-cognitive theory of Bandura which explain that the individuel is a social being influenced by the interaction of the environment in which it evolves. We have conduct a quantitative study whose data collected have been analysed with the Chi-square. The results obtained are in the sense of our research hypotheses. These leads us to say that the general hypothesis that has been consumption of psychoactive substances determines the behavior of adolescents was confirmed. We have made the following recommendations to the public authorities to strengthen the mechanisms to fight against drugs used in schools. Students to take into account the dangers of drugs consumption and its impacts in life on their health and on their education.