Sense of coherence, resilience, alcohol use among Slovak university students. A brief universal drug use prevention program

Sense of coherence, resilience and alcohol use among Slovak university students. A brief universal drug use prevention program.

Autor:

Oľga Orosová, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, olga.orosova@upjs.sk

Anna Janovská, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, beata.gajdosova1@upjs.sk

Beáta Gajdošová, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts, Department of Educational Psychology and Health Psychology, anna.janovska@centrum.sk

ISSN: 1335-3608

Abstract

The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy of brief universal drug use prevention program among university students. The changes (pre- and post-program) in scores of sense of coherence (SOC-13; Antonovsky, 1993), resilience (Notario-Pacheco et al., 2011), and alcohol use (AUDIT, Babor, Higgins-Biddle, Suanders, Monteiro, 2001) were explored (34 program participants, 75 students in control group). A statistically significant increase in comprehensibility and resilience, as well as a significant decrease of alcohol use from baseline to follow-up measures were found following participation in the program among students in the experimental group. Findings of this study supported flexibility, a potential for changes in cognitive component of SOC, resilience, and alcohol use among university students who participated in short universal drug use prevention program.

Keywords

Universal drug use prevention program. AUDIT. Sense of coherence. Resilience. University students.

Bibliographic information

OROSOVÁ, Oľga – JANOVSKÁ, Anna – GAJDOŠOVÁ, Beáta. Sense of coherence, resilience and alcohol use among Slovak university students. A brief universal drug use prevention program. Individual and Society, 2014, Vol. 17, No. 1.

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