Parenting practice, leisure experience, and substance use among South African adolescents
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Date
2019
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Routledge
Abstract
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 interrelationships among parenting practice, adolescents’
leisure experience, and substance use. Results of structural
equation modeling showed that parental leisure involvement was
associated with less substance use, while parental leisure overcontrol
was associated with greater substance use. The relationship of parental
leisure involvement to substance use was mediated by healthy
leisure engagement. The relationship of parental leisure overcontrol
to substance use, on the other hand, was mediated by leisure boredom
and healthy leisure engagement. The model path coefficients
had little variation between genders and socioeconomic groups
except that parental leisure overcontrol had a stronger positive relationship
with leisure boredom for males than for females. Theoretical
and practical implications are discussed.
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Parental leisure involvement, Parental leisure overcontrol, Boredom, Substance use, South Africa
Citation
Hui Xie, Elizabeth H. Weybright, Linda L. Caldwell, Lisa Wegner & Edward A. Smith (2019): Parenting practice, leisure experience, and substance use among South African adolescents, Journal of Leisure Research, DOI: 10.1080/00222216.2019.1620144