The richness of the case study report is certainly due to your dedication and honesty. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants from different organizations, both on and off campus, to understand the context of drug use among university students in Pietermaritzburg.
THE ECOLOGICAL THEORY OF URIE BRONFENBRENNER
The microsystem is the environment in which a person lives or interacts, for example family, school or peers. The exosystem refers to a particular context in which the person does not actively participate, but which still influences and is influenced by the environment in which the person participates, for example a parent's workplace that influences what happens at home in his interaction with a child.
THE SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY OF ALBERT BANDURA
The above elements of Bronfenbrenner's theory represent the relevant features used in an attempt to explain Rory's perceptions of his drug use experiences. For the purposes of the relevant case study, it was deemed relevant to pursue the above postulates of Bandura's theory.
THE PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY OF ERIK H. ERIKSON
Therefore, when viewed in the context of this study, Erikson's psychosocial theory can be meaningfully applied in an attempt to explain certain factors in Rory's drug use experiences, especially in relation to his family and peers during adolescence. It was also shown that Rory's possible lack of identity, or identity confusion, may have partially caused him to over-identify with drug-using peers in an attempt to deal with this confusion.
AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTEXT
To contextualize drug use from the perspectives of the above organizations, and for. According to the SANCA key informant, there is a high incidence of drinking and drug use among students.
THE SAMPLE
My immediate reaction was to assume he was some college authority and was about to complain about the nature of the poster. By using the classic individual case study to generate qualitative data.
THE INSTRUMENTS
Semi-structured, in-depth, open-ended interviews proved to be the most favorable way of collecting data for the purposes of the type of research conducted here. After the interview, I mentioned the possibility of contacting him again to allow him to proofread the case study report for the accuracy of the data collected, and this was subsequently done.
WHAT PREDISPOSED RORY TO TAKE DRUGS?
According to Bronfenbrenner (1980), what is important in any understanding or interpretation. Translated: "Behavior develops as a function of the interaction between person and environment."). I could imagine that he was the general and I was a soldier." Therefore, it seems that the balance of power from Rory's perspective was unequal - in favor of his father - and that Rory therefore felt that he had no control over situation, which according to Bronfenbrenner (1980) is not conducive.
WHAT PRECIPITATED RORY'S DRUG-TAKING?
Rory stated that "they were always right about letting me experiment with alcohol and stuff, so it was never restricted." This, along with the fact that Rory was left partying at the age of 14 to "experience what it was like to be drunk", could perhaps be seen as a lack of parental monitoring during Rory's early teenage years, and could also to have precipitated his drinking. A further macrosystemic influence at the time that may have precipitated Rory's drinking relates to the culture of the particular peer group present at that party, which appears to have been based on the shared activity of drinking alcohol (Kandel , 1985). These were part of the exosystem, but were not perceived by Rory as a hindrance, and their prohibitive nature could also have served as a temptation (Epanchin & Paul, 1987; Newcomb & Bentler, 1989).
Therefore, the particular values that he seems to have held, as part of the macrosystem, also contributed to whether his drug use was affected at that time. He also said that "I wanted to experience what it was like to be drunk" and so this further motivating factor, together with the presence of the older adolescents who were using alcohol, paved the way to satisfy that desire. Rory's answer to this question was that "but you think you are too, even in the drug scene." Rory's desire to be different may also have correlated with a pursuit of unconventionality and non-traditionality, which may place the adolescent at a higher risk for drug use (Brook et al., 2000; Newcomb&Bentler, 1989).
WHY DID RORY CONTINUE TO TAKE DRUGS?
Rory stated that "just my whole concept of society, religion, family and just the way you're brought up, that the family is like a unit, and when that crumbles and is destroyed, there's really nothing left." He stated that "I felt like it was one big unit and this is where I belonged and maybe I felt that whole family thing again." Therefore, his experiences within the rave scene initiated thoughts about what he had lost as a consequence of the divorce. 34;Maybe because I didn't find that security or comfort there, maybe I looked for it somewhere else." It is also likely that the divorce acted as a negative reinforcer for him, as the maintenance of his drug use may have been.
34;I discovered that I could only relate to her when I was on drugs." Accordingly, they seemed to positively reinforce each other's drug use (Bandura, 1986). 34;one with the whole world, and you can sort the way things are... ." He also said that he always drinks with friends and uses certain drugs with friends. I feel like the center of the party, unstoppable, perhaps thinking recklessly, hyperactive, 'out of control' so I'm told, but I don't think so."
CONCLUSION
What needs to be acknowledged is that certain elements in Rory's environment at the time, which included his parents and peers, may have enabled and encouraged Rory to start using drugs and subsequently contributed to his drug use. continued. Rory's identity confusion in early adolescence may have led him to overidentify with drug-using peers and may have accelerated his drug use. In answer to this question, it could be suggested that Rory's continued involvement in drug-using peer groups, both at school and university, was a major factor in this.
Rory's feelings of abandonment after divorce may have prompted his search for a sense of belonging with drug-using peers and nightclubs. Another factor may be related to the availability of medications, along with the pleasurable effects that drugs have had on Rory, and this could also contribute to his continued drug use. All system levels, from the micro to the chronosystem, operating in Rory's environment may have played a role in this process.
MY REFLECTIONS
It was also stated that, on the basis of the case study itself, it may appear that some programs within such organizations directed towards drug use may prove inappropriate. Proceedings of the South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use October Meeting Report Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods (2nd Edition). Because there is a shortage of manpower in schools, teachers must be taught to be aware of the symptoms of drug use.
There is more overt drug use in the early years as there is a spirit of getting drunk in a crowd and there is the associated noise. Students can report drug use to the LRO if they are concerned about or disturbed by the behavior of a drug user. Substance abuse prevention is not a topic thought about by residence hall staff as they are more involved in departmental, academic and safety issues.
DO YOU ENJOY
CLUBBING / RAVES?
You know what I mean, it's just I think kind of unnecessary and ridiculous, and I'm sure there are better ways to handle things like that. I think we're getting further and further away from that ever happening, and I mean obviously it's kind of like S.A.B. and big organizations and companies behind the whole thing too, I think, as well as individuals I suppose. It became a lot like sexually deviant, you know, girls just became sluts, and guys just wanted sex., and it just got nasty, and everybody was just in it for themselves, and nobody really gave a damn about you.
I know people who have done that, but that's as far as I want to go with that kind of thing. Because, you know my life is just starting to change this year, so I'm on uneven ground. R Not really that I know, because it's kind of a scene, and if you're not in the scene, you don't really know what's going on and you don't know about secret parties and things like that.
12 beers (+/-)
- Results & Discussion
- Conclusions & Reflections
Desires and feelings of being unfaithful, I know it's wrong but still want to do it. K Then you really do it just for the enjoyment of it - to do it with friends. Is it just that you wanted to do it or because of an underlying reason?.
I now know that is not the case and since I always liked being free will and that I wanted to do it just because I wanted to do it. R No, because I wanted to do it, so I don't think it was just because they didn't want me to do it. R Yes, and because I couldn't, I felt, why couldn't I? It's like the whole legal system of law - why can't you do something you want to do?
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The next stage in Yin's case study method is the actual design of the case study itself. The research design is an action plan that outlines how to travel from "here" to "there", where. However, in case study research, validity and reliability are addressed throughout the study at the relevant stages, in order to continuously assess its quality and integrity. A case study researcher must also design a case study protocol, which contains the basic research questions as well as the questions to be asked in the interviews, a plan on how such data should be collected, and finally thoughts and ideas regarding to the analysis, interpretation and the actual writing up of the case study report.
In addition to a case study protocol, it is also necessary to create a case study database, which relates to the organization of the evidence as well as new insights gained from the evidence, obtained during data collection. This is an excellent way to systematically organize all the evidence into salient themes that reflect the case study design and investigation, which in turn creates significant insight into the data. Analyzing case study data is an immensely challenging, time-consuming, but ultimately richly rewarding task.
