The outgoing, the rebellious and the anxious: Are adolescent personality dimensions related to the uptake of smoking?

Psychology and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-85

  White, Victoria ^a   Hill, David ^a   Hopper, John ^b  

^a Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Eysenck personality inventory; longitudinal study; Self esteem; Smoking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030329237     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870449608406923     Document Type: Article

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