Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD === 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. S...

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Main Author:	Florence, Maria Ann
Other Authors:	Mwaba, K
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Adolescents Substance use South African Low socio-economic status communities Contextual influences Validity theory Ecological theoretical framework Content evidence Structural evidence External evidence
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3941

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spelling	ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uwc-oai-etd.uwc.ac.za-11394-39412017-08-02T04:00:40Z Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors Florence, Maria Ann Mwaba, K Koch, S.E Adolescents Substance use South African Low socio-economic status communities Contextual influences Validity theory Ecological theoretical framework Content evidence Structural evidence External evidence Philosophiae Doctor - PhD 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. 2015-02-04T13:40:11Z 2015-02-04T13:40:11Z 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3941 University of the Western Cape
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topic	Adolescents Substance use South African Low socio-economic status communities Contextual influences Validity theory Ecological theoretical framework Content evidence Structural evidence External evidence
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description	Philosophiae Doctor - PhD === 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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title	Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
title_short	Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
title_full	Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
title_fullStr	Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
title_full_unstemmed	Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors
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Adolescent substance use: The development and validation of a measure of perceived individual and contextual factors

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