Noor Hassline Mohamed* and Abd. Halim Bin Mohd Hussin
Objective: This study aims at assessing the in luence of personality traits dimensions: (i) Openness, (ii) conscientiousness, (iii) extraversion, (iv) agreeableness and (v) neuroticism on individual inclination to moral disengagement and drug use.
Methods: A total of 132 on-going school adolescents aged of 14 to 17 years old with discipline problems from secondary schools in Selangor were involved in the study. Employing a quantitative and correlational designs, data are collected using standardised questionnaires including the moral disengagement scale, big ive inventory and Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-10).
Results: The results showed that personality traits have a strong relationship with moral disengagement and drug use. Furthermore, the study found that conscientiousness has negatively associated with moral disengagement and drug use, however, neuroticism has positively associated with moral disengagement and drug use. The result found that moral disengagement has indirect effect on drug use via neuroticism. In addition, neuroticism served as a partial mediator.
Conclusion: Findings indicated that neuroticism is a personality trait correlated with moral disengagement and drug use among adolescents with discipline problems that should be considered in drug school counselling and prevention programmes. Further recommendation on this topic is discussed.
Published Date: 2024-07-19; Received Date: 2020-04-03
