Personality factors and alcohol use: A mediator analysis of drinking motives

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 796-800

  Kuntsche, Emmanuel ^a   von Fischer, Madeleine ^b   Gmel, Gerhard ^a,c,d  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PROBLEMS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

College students; Conscientiousness; Drinking motives; Extraversion; Mediation; Neuroticism; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249118975     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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