Personal competence skills, distress, and well-being as determinants of substance use in a predominantly minority urban adolescent sample

Prevention Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-33

  Griffin, Kenneth W ^a   Botvin, Gilbert J ^a   Scheier, Lawrence M ^a   Epstein, Jennifer A ^a   Doyle, Margaret M ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competence; Minority; Substance use; Urban; Well being

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0036511005     PISSN: 13894986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014667209130     Document Type: Article

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