Dangerous sports and recreational drug-use: Rationalizing and contextualizing risk

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 215-232

  Larkin, Michael ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Ecstasy; Extreme sports; Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA); Qualitative; Risky but rewarding activities; Substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944235474     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.770     Document Type: Article

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