TY - JOUR PY - 2005// TI - Substance use and multiple victimisation among adolescents in South Africa JO - Addictive behaviors A1 - Morojele, Neo K. A1 - Brook, J. S. SP - 1163 EP - 1176 VL - 31 IS - 7 N2 - The aims of the study were to examine the relationship between multiple victimisation and drug use, and the role of drug use and other intra-personal, peer, parental and environmental factors in predicting multiple victimisation among adolescents in South Africa. A cross-sectional design was employed. The participants comprised 1474 male and female adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years, from Durban and Cape Town. They completed questionnaire measures assessing demographic characteristics; self, peer and parental drug use; self and peer delinquency; parental child-centredness and rules; and community drug availability and exposure to violence on television. A measure of multiple victimisation assessed whether or not the respondents had experienced two or more different types of violence in their lifetime. There was a significant association between frequency of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use and multiple victimisation. Significant predictors of multiple victimisation in multiple logistic regression analyses were variables within intra-personal, peer, parental and environmental domains. Victimisation prevention programmes in South Africa should be comprehensive and target adolescents' drug use as well as their other psychosocial risk factors.
LA - SN - 0306-4603 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.09.009 ID - ref1 ER -