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,...

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Main Author: Muhammad Syafiq Mohd Sarif (Author)
Corporate Author: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin . Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
Format: Book
Language:English
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520 |a 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=0.8]9, p<O.Ol) strength of the relationship. Lastly, the :relation§hip 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 finding 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. 
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