- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Family background and deviant behavior in relationship to inhalant use in Bangkok, 1990
- Creator:
- Jindachot, Kanasak
- Date of Original:
- 1990-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The objective of this study was twofold. The first task was to investigate the family background variables associated with inhalant users in Bangkok in comparison with non-users. The study focused on six areas: marital status, parents' education, parents' occupation, parents' manners, parents' relationship and family income. Second, inhalant users and non-users were compared with reference to specific deviant behaviors: fighting and disputes, absence without leave from school, fleeing from home, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking and arrest by police. It was reasoned that inhalant users unlike non-users were likely to be generalized deviants.Two population sample groups were utilized: 1) the study group users selected from hospital-admitted-inhalant-addicted patients and from the Bangkok Central Training Home for juvenile delinquents; and 2) the central group was selected from two secondary schools. The data were collected by personal interviews. Chi-square was the major statistic test used for comparative purposes. The study group in comparison with the control group was found to have negative family background situations, and to be more frequently deviant in respect to other inhalant users. They were found to be generalized deviants.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1990_jindachot_kanasak
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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