Influence of Social Media and Parental Upbringing on Drug Abuse among Students in Tertiary Institution in Delta State

Abstract

This study investigated, social media and parental upbringing on drug abuse among Tertiary institution students in Delta State. Two (2) research questions and two (2) null hypothesis was raised to guide the study. The study adopted the correlational research design. The population of this study comprised the entire students in the three colleges of education in Delta State. federal college of Education Asaba, College of Education Warri and College of Education mosogar. sample size was six hundred (600), that is to say 200 students from each college of education, this was done through simple random sampling techniques giving a total sample of 600, Instruments use for this study was, social media, parental upbringing and drug abuse scale (SMPUDAS). The total number of all the variables are 76.29%, content validity while its construct validity ranged between 0.52 to 0.99. The reliability index for, social media scale has alpha=0.89 P ? 0.5 level of significance, parental upbringing scale has alpha =0.96, and drug abuse scale has alpha =0.97 P ? 0.5 level of significance. correlation and coefficient was use to answer research questions while correlation , and Regression analysis were employed to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significance. The result showed that all the variables has a relationship with drug abuse among the tertiary school students in colleges of education in Delta State. Based on the findings, recommendations were made that, Parental upbringing and monitoring should be done both in school and at home, Parent should monitor the type of things their children watches or type of information their children asses at the social media, Students should always seek the help of a professional counsellor and a therapist for modification of behavior