Personality traits and their associations with substance use among adolescents

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 356-360

  Gunnarsson, Mattias ^a   Petter Gustavsson, J ^b   Tengström, Anders ^b   Franck, Johan ^b   Fahlke, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Alcohol; Health; Illicit drugs; Personality; Risk behaviour; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049083402     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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