Positive alcohol expectancies partially mediate the relation between delinquent behavior and alcohol use: Generalizability across age, sex, and race in a cohort of 85,000 Iowa schoolchildren

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-34

  Meier, Madeline H ^a   Slutske, Wendy S ^a   Arndt, Stephan ^b   Cadoret, Remi J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Age, sex, and race differences; Alcohol expectancies; Alcohol use; Delinquency

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELINQUENCY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; IOWA; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MOTIVATION; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 33947697960     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.21.1.25     Document Type: Article

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