Key predictors from DSLR | Pooled | Sub-African region | ||||
WA | NA | SEA | SA | EA | ||
SDS | SDS | SDS | SDS | SDS | SDS | |
Sex | 0.0028 | – | 0.0846 | 0.1333 | – | 0.0258 |
Age | – | – | 0.01210 | – | – | – |
Grade | – | – | – | 0.0396 | – | – |
Days bullied (past 30 days) | – | 0.1983 | – | 0.00610 | 0.1235 | – |
Close friends | – | 0.0245 | 0.0559 | – | – | – |
Smoking exposure (past 7 days) | 0.0506 | – | 0.1074 | 0.2142 | 0.1244 | 0.1512 |
Parent smoker | 0.0875 | – | 0.1462 | 0.0347 | 0.1812 | 0.0784 |
Alcohol | 0.4041 | – | – | 0.3421 | 0.3411 | 0.4561 |
Truancy | 0.1294 | 0.3831 | 0.2251 | 0.1064 | 0.1623 | 0.0785 |
Times attacked (past 12 months) | – | 0.3492 | 0.0905 | – | – | – |
Times in fight (past 12 months) | 0.1542 | – | 0.0817 | 0.0845 | – | 0.1103 |
Other students are kind and helpful | – | – | 0.00212 | – | – | – |
Parents check the students’ homework | – | – | 0.00213 | 0.0199 | – | 0.0517 |
Parents understand problems | – | – | – | – | 0.0177 | – |
Parents know about free time | – | – | 0.01011 | – | 0.0476 | – |
Parental/Guardian monitoring | 0.0357 | 0.0454 | 0.0638 | – | 0.0038 | – |
Times injured (past 12 months) | 0.1393 | – | 0.1243 | 0.0238 | – | 0.0526 |
Superscript denotes rankings of relative importance of factors significantly influencing marijuana use.
NA, North Africa; SA, South Africa; SDS, Standardised Dominance Statistics; SEA, South-East Africa; WA, West Africa.