2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu
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| spelling | 15774 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15774 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Applied Social Sciences English application/pdf 16 1.5 Server storage Scanned document UniSZA Private Access Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) Copyright©PWB2025 2020-12-10 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEPRESSIONS AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR AMONG DRUG ABUSERS IN MARANG PRISON, TERENGGANU (MASTER_2020).pdf Muhammad Syafiq bin Mohd Sarif mental health issues behavioral aspects substance abuse 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu Depression and aggressive behaviours among drug abusers have raised an alarming concern among researchers, practitioners, and scholars around the world. However, research in this area is still very limited in Malaysia since the statistic did not reveal the details of stage of drug dependency, depression and aggressive behaviour among drug abuser. Hence, this study is focused on identifying the stage of drug dependency among drug abuser, the level of depression of drug abuser and the level of aggressive behaviour of drug abuser. Furthermore, this research is examined the relationship between depression and aggressive behaviour among drug abuser and the relationship between physical, verbal, anger and hostile dimensions with depression among drug abuser. This research used quantitative method for data collection in Marang Prison, Terengganu. It involved 200 drug abusers as respondents. Researcher chose questionnaire of The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) and Aggressiveness Questionnaire (AQ). All the selected questionnaires were validated by School of Social Sciences Work Ethics’ Committee, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences Cronbach’s Alpha for DAST-20 was 0.954, DASS-21 was 0.963 and AQ was 0.961. The data collected has been analysed by using descriptive, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression. The results showed that the stage of drug dependency among drug abusers was low (n= 98) followed by a normal level of depression among drug abusers (n=98) and low level of aggressive behaviours (n= 98). Meanwhile, the relationship between depression and aggressive behaviours among drug abusers were a statistically significant linear relationship with the positive direction of the relationship and moderate (r=0.819, p<0.01) strength of the relationship. Lastly, the relationship between physical, verbal, anger and hostile dimensions with depression among drug abusers were depression (F (4,195) = 66.493, p<0.05, R2 = 0.577). These three variables were statistically significant to the prediction, p < .05. Based on the findings, it shows that drug abusers in Marang Prison were having a low drug dependency, normal level of depression, low level of aggressive behaviours and strongly interconnected variables between depression and aggressive behaviours. Dissertations, Academic Aggressive Behavior Depression And Suicide Drug Abusers Thesis |
| spellingShingle | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
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| subject | mental health issues behavioral aspects substance abuse Dissertations, Academic |
| summary | Depression and aggressive behaviours among drug abusers have raised an alarming concern among researchers, practitioners, and scholars around the world. However, research in this area is still very limited in Malaysia since the statistic did not reveal the details of stage of drug dependency, depression and aggressive behaviour among drug abuser. Hence, this study is focused on identifying the stage of drug dependency among drug abuser, the level of depression of drug abuser and the level of aggressive behaviour of drug abuser. Furthermore, this research is examined the relationship between depression and aggressive behaviour among drug abuser and the relationship between physical, verbal, anger and hostile dimensions with depression among drug abuser. This research used quantitative method for data collection in Marang Prison, Terengganu. It involved 200 drug abusers as respondents. Researcher chose questionnaire of The Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20), Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) and Aggressiveness Questionnaire (AQ). All the selected questionnaires were validated by School of Social Sciences Work Ethics’ Committee, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences Cronbach’s Alpha for DAST-20 was 0.954, DASS-21 was 0.963 and AQ was 0.961. The data collected has been analysed by using descriptive, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression. The results showed that the stage of drug dependency among drug abusers was low (n= 98) followed by a normal level of depression among drug abusers (n=98) and low level of aggressive behaviours (n= 98). Meanwhile, the relationship between depression and aggressive behaviours among drug abusers were a statistically significant linear relationship with the positive direction of the relationship and moderate (r=0.819, p<0.01) strength of the relationship. Lastly, the relationship between physical, verbal, anger and hostile dimensions with depression among drug abusers were depression (F (4,195) = 66.493, p<0.05, R2 = 0.577). These three variables were statistically significant to the prediction, p < .05. Based on the findings, it shows that drug abusers in Marang Prison were having a low drug dependency, normal level of depression, low level of aggressive behaviours and strongly interconnected variables between depression and aggressive behaviours. |
| title | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
| title_full | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
| title_fullStr | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
| title_short | 2020_The Relationship Between Depressions and Aggressive Behaviour Among Drug Abusers in Marang Prison, Terengganu |
| title_sort | 2020_the relationship between depressions and aggressive behaviour among drug abusers in marang prison, terengganu |