Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time

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dc.contributor.authorSharp, Erin Hiley
dc.contributor.authorCoffman, Donna
dc.contributor.authorCaldwell, Linda L.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Edward A.
dc.contributor.authorWegner, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorVergnani, Tania
dc.contributor.authorMathews, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-13T21:14:45Z
dc.date.available2013-10-13T21:14:45Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractUsing 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 (leisure boredom, new leisure interests, and healthy leisure) and substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana) behaviors and to investigate the ways in which changes in leisure experiences predict changes in substance use behaviors over time. Results indicated that adolescents’ substance use increased significantly across adolescence, but that leisure experiences remained fairly stable over time. We also found that adolescent leisure experiences predicted baseline substance use and that changes in leisure experiences predicted changes in substance use behaviors over time, with leisure boredom emerging as the most consistent and strongest predictor of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use. Implications for interventions that target time use and leisure experiences are discussed.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationSharp, E.H. et al. (2011). Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time. International Journal of Behavioural Deveopment,35(4): 343–351en_US
dc.identifier.issn0165-0254
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/756
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Sage Publications. This is the author's final version.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025411404494
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectAdolescenceen_US
dc.subjectBoredomen_US
dc.subjectLeisureen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectSubstance useen_US
dc.subjectTime useen_US
dc.titlePredicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across timeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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