Factors and consumption of alcoholic drinks in students of technological institute of higher education – Peru

Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Research in Psychology

Year: 2023

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Factors and consumption of alcoholic drinks in students of technological institute of higher education – Peru

Gloria Ortega Moreno, Rosario Yslado Méndez

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The objective of this research was to analyse how psychosocial factors and the consumption of alcoholic drinks in pupils on third academic year in a Public Technological Institute of Higher Education in Huaraz – Peru are correlated. The approach applied was the quantitative method, with a non-experimental, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational design, in which 232 students were evaluated with an instrument adapted to the purpose of the study, which has adequate levels of validity (Aiken = 0.92) and reliability (Cronbach = 0.82). The outstanding results, regarding to the consumption of alcoholic drinks, it was found that 61.21% of pupils occasionally consumed alcoholic drinks, whereas 31.48% did not consume such drinks and 4.31% consumed them frequently. The study shows that there is a significant correlation amongst psychosocial factors, which consist of socio-demographic, socio-economic, socio-cultural and family variables as well as a significant correlation amongst the consumption of alcoholic drinks

keywords: cultural, domestic violence, economic, family, socio-demographic