Stress, Coping, and Alcohol Expectancies in Rural African-American Women

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 70-79

  Boyd, Mary R ^a   Baliko, Beverly ^a   Cox, Mary Foster ^a   Tavakoli, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; COMORBIDITY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH CAROLINA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 33947506722     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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