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Perceived parental control, restructuring ability, and leisure motivation: a cross-cultural comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Leisure is viewed worldwide as an important developmental context for adolescents. As leisure research and programs are shared across nations, it is crucial to examine the cultural equivalence of leisure-related constructs ...
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 ...
Boys are victims, too: the influence of perpetrators’ age and gender in sexual coercion against boys
(SAGE Publications, 2018)
Sexual coercion among adolescent boys in South Africa is an underresearched topic despite the frequency of such events. Although quantitative research has illuminated the prevalence of sexual coercion toward boys, it has ...
With a little help from my friends? A longitudinal look at the role of peers versus friends on adolescent alcohol use
(Elsevier, 2019)
Introduction: Alcohol is the most commonly used substance by South African adolescents. Social
norms play a key role in alcohol use, although distinctions are not always made between descriptive
and injunctive norms and ...
Perceived parental control, restructuring ability, and leisure motivation: A cross-cultural comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Leisure is viewedworldwide as an important developmental context for adolescents. As leisure research and programs are shared across nations,
it is crucial to examine the cultural equivalence of leisure-related constructs
and ...
The state of methamphetamine ('tik') use among youth in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2016)
BACKGROUND Methamphetamine use among youth in the Western Cape Province of South Africa has increased at alarming rates over the
past decade. Although current estimates of youth use exist, they range from 2% to 12%.
OBJECTIVES ...
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, ...
Parenting practice, leisure experience, and substance use among South African adolescents
(Routledge, 2019)
There is limited understanding of parents’ role in positive youth/adolescent
development through leisure in developing countries. Using
a sample of 6,626 eighth-grade students in South Africa, this study
examined the ...
Profiles of adolescent leisure motivation and substance use in the HealthWise South Africa research trial: a person-centered approach
(Routledge, 2018)
Engaging in intrinsically motivated behaviors, both within and outside
of the leisure context, is associated with well-being. However,
individuals can be driven by multiple types of motivation simultaneously,
and the ...
Linking Life Skills and Norms with adolescent substance use and delinquency in South Africa
(National Institute of Health, 2013)
We examined factors targeted in two popular prevention approaches with adolescent drug use and
delinquency in South Africa. We hypothesized adolescent life skills to be inversely related, and
perceived norms to be directly ...