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Table 1 Family relations and management variables and their measures

From: Family management risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use in South Africa

Variable

Measures

Reference

Background Variables

Gender, age, level of education, cultural background, parental marital status, parental education, parental socio-economic status

[1]

Family Management

 

[1]

 Parental monitoring

Monitoring

[15]

 

Delinquency

[16]

 Discipline and Behavioural Control

Sharing, control through guilt, strictness, expression of affection, emotional support, parental direction, sharing, moderate autonomy, lax discipline, positive evaluation, negative evaluation, irritability, extreme autonomy, laissez-faire family style

[17, 18]

 Parental rewards

Good behaviour, achievement,

[31]

Substance use

  

 Adolescent and parental substance use

Intensity and frequency of alcohol use, intensity and frequency of alcohol use, frequency of other substance use, age at initiation of use

[14]