TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time
JO  - International journal of behavioral development
A1  - Sharp, Erin Hiley
A1  - Coffman, Donna L.
A1  - Caldwell, Linda L.
A1  - Smith, Edward A.
A1  - Wegner, Lisa
A1  - Vergnani, Tania
A1  - Mathews, Catherine
SP  - 343
EP  - 351
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
N2  - Using 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0165-0254
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025411404494
ID  - ref1
ER  -