Characteristics of adolescent excessive drinkers compared with consumers and abstainers

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-165

  Tomcikova, Zuzana ^a,b   Madarasova Geckova, Andrea ^a,b   Van Dijk, Jitse P ^a,c   Reijneveld, Sijmen A ^c  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Med Faculty of Safarik University   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Excessive drinking; Personality; Social support; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SLOVAKIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 79952299634     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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