Self-Resilience Of Students In Drug Initiations

Adolescence is the age where students experience a phase of vulnerability in their lives. Information technology can change the way that
people think, behave, and act so that it can affect students who are in their teens. The resilience of students is important to build especially those related
to drug initiation because a low level of resilience can pose a considerable risk for the development of psychopathology and psychosocial risks of
children. Research respondents came from 7 high schools in North Sumatra, which was identified by the teacher as having the potential for drug abuse
totaling 96 students. Data collection using questionnaires and tests to respondents (students). Data analysis techniques using path analysis. The results
showed that: 1) technology utilization had no effect on self-potential as measured by intelligence and Locus of control; 2) the technology utilization
influences awareness drugs hazard awareness, life skills, and spiritual guidance; 3) drugs hazard awareness, life skills, and spiritual guidance affect the
self-resilience to drug initiation; 4) self-potential does not affect the self-resilience to drug initiation. We recommend that those directly involved in the
development of adolescent students, namely teachers, parents, and peers, can be empowered through education programs with a technological
approach through applications specifically designed to suppress drug initiation in adolescence.