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Predicting secondary school dropout among South African adolescents: A survival analysis approach
(Education Association of South Africa, 2017)
Education is one of the strongest predictors of health worldwide. In South Africa, school dropout is a crisis where by Grade 12, only 52% of the age appropriate population remain enrolled. Survival analysis was used to ...
Trajectories of adolescent substance use development and the influence of healthy leisure: a growth mixture modeling approach
(Elsevier, 2016)
Considerable heterogeneity exists in adolescent substance use development. To most
effectively prevent use, distinct trajectories of use must be identified as well as differential
associations with predictors of use, ...
Through the lens of a peer: understanding leisure boredom and risk behaviour in adolescence
(Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2011)
There has been very little research investigating leisure boredom and risk behaviour among adolescents in South Africa. Using a qualitative approach, this study investigated adolescents’ perceptions of leisure boredom and ...
Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time
(SAGE Publications, 2011)
Using seven waves of data, collected twice a year from the 8th through the 11th grades in a low-resource community in Cape Town, South Africa, we aimed to describe the developmental trends in three specific leisure experiences ...