Content Analysis of the Concept of Addiction in High School Textbooks of Iran

Background: This research sought to determine how well the causes of addiction, addiction harms, and prevention of addiction have been noticed in high school textbooks.Methods: We used descriptive method to select the main related components of the addiction concept and content analysis method for analyzing the content of textbooks. The study population comprised ۶۱ secondary school curriculum textbooks and study sample consisted of ۱۴ secondary school textbooks selected by purposeful sampling method. The tools for collecting data were “content analysis inventory” which its validity was confirmed by educational and social sciences experts and its reliability has been found to be ۹۱%. About ۶۷ components were prepared for content analysis and were divided to ۳ categories of causes, harms, and prevention of addiction. The analysis units in this study comprised phrases, topics, examples, course topics, words, poems, images, questions, tables, and exercises.Findings: Results of the study showed that the components of the addiction concept have presented with ۲۱۲ remarks in the textbooks. Also, the degree of attention given to any of the ۳ main components of the addiction concept were presented as follows: causes with ۵۲ (۲۴.۵۲%) remarks, harm with ۸۹ (۴۱.۹۸%) remarks, and prevention with ۷۱ (۳۳.۴۹%) remarks.Conclusion: In high school textbooks, little attention has been paid to the concept of addiction and mostly its biological dimension were addressed while social, personal, familial, and religious dimensions of addiction have been neglected.

کلیدواژه ها:

harm ، Substance addiction ، Prevention ، content analysis ، high school ، Curriculum ، Causes