Ah. Eide et al., COMBINING CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY-TRAIT VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS FOR DRUG-USE AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN ZIMBABWE, Journal of adolescence, 20(5), 1997, pp. 511-524
A classroom survey among 3061 secondary school students in four provin
ces in Zimbabwe was conducted in 1994. This paper presents analyses oi
the relationship between a set of predictors including personality tr
ait, social and cultural variables and drug use. A two-stage sampling
strategy distinguished between four different socio cultural groups. M
ultiple regression was applied to analyse the impact of sensation-seek
ing, addictive behaviour of significant others, and Global and Local c
ultural orientation on drug use, controlling for age, gender and socio
-cultural sub-group. The model explained 29.7% of the variance in the
dependent drug use variable and the two cultural orientation variables
were found to contribute significantly in addition to the personality
trait and the social variables. (C) 1997 The Association for Professi
onals in Services for Adolescents.