| Sumario: | The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomena of drug abuse among secondary students in Hong Kong using a social control approach. This study is based on the Hong Kong Youth Health Behaviors Survey, which was a self-administered web-based survey carred out in May-July, 2010. The survey was targeted at two cohort of students, 14 years old (secondary 2) and 16 years old (secondary 4), within the Hong Kong public school system. A total of 31 secondary schools participated in the study and 2,084 secondary 2 and 1,466 secondary 4 students completed the survey. This study employs structural equation modeling to analyze the data. Major findings are as follows. First, resilient factors, namely, values and self-efficacy, both contribute negatively to drug abuse. Second, protective factors, namely, parental, school and peer support factors contribute negatively to drug abuse, and the school support factor is particularly prominant. Third, risk factors, namely, psychosomatic symptoms, study stress and peer influence, all contribute positive to drug abuse, and the peer influence is particularly influential. Finally, values as a resilient factor mediates the contribution of risk factors and protective factors on drug abuse by strengthening the former and weakening the latter.
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