Beliefs about alcohol among UK jews and protestants: Do they fit the alcohol-depression hypothesis?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 122-127

  Loewenthal, Kate M ^a   MacLeod, Andrew K ^a   Cook, Susan ^a   Lee, Michelle ^a   Goldblatt, Vivienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Attitudes to alcohol; Depression; Gender; Jewish; Protestant

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTESTANTISM; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0037711043     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-003-0609-4     Document Type: Article

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