Coping motives and trait negative affect: Testing mediation and moderation models of alcohol problems among American Red Cross disaster workers who responded to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1319-1330

  Gaher, Raluca M ^a   Simons, Jeffrey S ^a   Jacobs, Gerard A ^a   Meyer, David ^a   Johnson Jimenez, Erika ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol problems; Coping motivated drinking; Disaster workers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RED CROSS; UNITED STATES; WORKER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RED CROSS; RELIEF WORK; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746257677     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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