title: Linking Life Skills and Norms With Adolescent Substance Use and Delinquency in South Africa.
abstract: We 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 113 South Henderson, University Park, 16802 PA.
authors.forename: Mary H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Linda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.forename: Stephanie A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: Tania
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vergnani
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mathews
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wegner
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