Linking Life Skills and Norms with adolescent substance use and delinquency in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorLai, Mary H.
dc.contributor.authorGraham, John W.
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell, Linda L.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Edward A.
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Stephanie A.
dc.contributor.authorMathews, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorVergnani, Tania
dc.contributor.authorWegner, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-06T09:27:25Z
dc.date.available2017-07-06T09:27:25Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWe 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 related to later drug use and delinquency. Multiple regression and a relative weights approach were conducted for each outcome using a sample of 714 South African adolescents ages 15 to 19 years (M = 15.8 years, 57% female). Perceived norms predicted gateway drug use. Conflict resolution skills (inversely) and perceived peer acceptability (directly) predicted harder drug use and delinquency. The “culture of violence” within some South African schools may make conflict resolution skills more salient for preventing harder drug use and delinquency.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationLai, M. H. et al. (2013). Linking Life Skills and Norms with adolescent substance use and delinquency in South Africa. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23 (1): 128–137en_US
dc.identifier.issn1050-8392
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3051
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNational Institute of Healthen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00801.x
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00801.x
dc.subjectLinking life skillsen_US
dc.subjectAdolescentsen_US
dc.subjectSubstance useen_US
dc.subjectDelinquencyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleLinking Life Skills and Norms with adolescent substance use and delinquency in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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