Level of Binge Drinking and Drug Use of Freshmen Engineering Students at North Cell CTU- Campuses

This study assessed and described the behavioral patternslike the level of binge drinking and drug use of the Cebu Technological University (CTU) – North Cell Freshmen Engineering students during the Academic Year 2014-2015 and explored the possible factors that had pushed or constrained the behaviors. Descriptive method was utilized with two sets of questionnaires as the main instruments. Simple percentage and weighted mean were used to calculate and interpret data gathered. Random Sampling was used to get the 20 percent of the total population of freshmen engineering students. The findings revealed that 95 percent of the respondents were of suitable ages to enter college (16- 17 years old). There were 30 -35 percent of the fathers of the engineering students who were high school graduate and 58 percent have very low family income. 93 or 43 percent of the respondents are members of recognized organizations of the school and many of them sometimes join in co- curricular activities of the school. Furthermore, respondents were Generally Close to their families but were Generally Sociable with friends. As revealed, 60 percent of the respondents drank alcohol which includes infrequent drinking to heavy drinking. Moreover, it was determined that the factors that affected the student’s alcoholism and low self- esteem were their problems such as the strictness and constant quarrels of their parents, strictness of teachers andinsecurities with friends. It was envisioned that results from this study would serve as the basis for a proposed social behavior modification model for all engineering students.

Keywords: Social behavior, Behavior modification, alcoholism, drug abuse