Exploring the Link Between Racial Discrimination and Substance Use: What Mediates? What Buffers?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 785-801

  Gibbons, Frederick X ^a   Etcheverry, Paul E ^b   Stock, Michelle L ^c   Gerrard, Meg ^a   Weng, Chih Yuan ^a   Kiviniemi, Marc ^d   O'Hara, Ross E ^a  

^a E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Discrimination; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 77958563418     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019880     Document Type: Article

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