The Accessibility of Motivational Tendencies Toward Alcohol: Approach, Avoidance, and Disinhibited Drinking

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 294-301

  Ostafin, Brian D ^a   Palfai, Tibor P ^a   Wechsler, Carrie E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0242637195     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.11.4.294     Document Type: Article

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