A personality-based description of maturing out of alcohol problems: Extension with a Five-Factor model and robustness to modeling challenges

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 948-954

  Littlefield, Andrew K ^a   Sher, Kenneth J ^a   Wood, Phillip K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use disorders; Drinking motives; Five Factor; Maturing out; Personality change; Prospective study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT GROWTH MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; TEMPERANCE; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955513252     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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