Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
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2014
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The purpose of the study was to gather validity evidence for a South African developed instrument designed to measure individual and contextual factors associated with adolescent substance use in low socio-economic status communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Studies report high rates of substance use in these communities. This possibly points towards the
impact of typical post-apartheid contextual factors on the development of adolescent substance use. The South African Substance Use Contextual Risk Questionnaire (SASUCRQ) measures adolescents’ subjective experiences of their own psycho-social and their communities’ functioning.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Adolescents, Substance use, South African, Low socio-economic status communities, Contextual influences, Validity theory, Ecological theoretical framework, Content evidence, Structural evidence, External evidence