7. Limitation
substance abuse
This study is important for extending the adolescent empowerment and substance abuse prevention–intervention literature. The results of this study should be considered in light of several limitations. First, the study was limited to a group of Abuja adolescents in Nigeria, and it is unclear if the results can be generalized to other adolescent populations; hence, future research will be needed in other locations to establish generalizability. Second, we lacked information on variables such as that neighborhood environment, parental conflict, parental psychopathology, and substance use that may have been potentially crucial for the observed relationships [