Abstract
Using substance abuse among adolescence is the international problems. In Thailand also continuing problem. This research aims to study meaning of psychological flexibility, purpose in life, and perceived on coping of university adolescents who use substance abuse, experiences of parent of university adolescents who use substance abuse, factors influence preventing behavior from substance abuse, psychological flexibility for substance, purpose in life of university adolescent. Strategies to prevent university adolescent to not use substance abuse from perspective of personnel who work with university adolescent and develop the program for cultivating of psychological flexibility, purpose of life for preventing drug use by integrated Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Performing Art for Youths. Instrument for quantitative data collection were 12 questionnaires and instrument for qualitative data collection was the questions for in-depth interview. Collecting data by using mix-method. Sample were: 11 substance abuse use adolescents, 10 parent of substance abuse use adolescents, 450 adolescents in university, 10 personnel who work with adolescent in university. Quantitative data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. The findings of the study revealed that: 1) Coping competency, Family Connectedness, perceived social support, and game addiction could explain 30.4 percent of the variance in preventive behavior from using substance abuse. 2) Self-efficacy could explain of the variance in psychological flexibility among university students 23 % (R2=.23, p< .001). 3) Coping competency, self-esteem, perceived social support, and Mental Health Literacy could explain 36.00 percent of the variance in purpose in life. 4) Meaning of psychological flexibility are let emotion go, no cling to the problem or some kind of thought, know how to be coping with pressure, and know how to solve problem. 5) Meaning of purpose in life has creative and valuable life, stay together with family, live life to its fullest, stay with happiness, save self from bad thing, practice some skills and then set the purpose of life from those skills. 6) Concept for coping with problem of adolescent who use substance abuse are use substance abuse, open mind, decrease rumination in problems. 7) The strategies for preventing substance abuse among adolescents from personnel who work for adolescent in university are 1) prevention work on scientific knowledge, research 2) design for accessing to adolescents by awareness of their background 3) Social promotion or volunteer 4) set emergency station for adolescents 5) enhance knowledge of substance abuse and social skills for adolescents 6) peer: role model 7) encouraging for opening to come for helping process 8) encouraging for having purpose of life 8) Program for cultivating of psychological flexibility, purpose of Life for preventing drug use by Integrated Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Performing Art for Youths in Eastern region. It is 24 hours in 4 day, 2 weeks, 2 days a week, 5 week spacing between 2 weeks and suggested to run program in weekend. The results of this study could be used as basic information to have system and continue encourage adolescents to have psychological flexibility and purpose in life.
