Mediating effects of coping, personal belief, and social support on the relationship among stress, depression, and smoking behaviour in university students

Health Education

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-146

  Sun, Jing ^a   Buys, Nicholas ^a   Stewart, Donald ^a   Shum, David ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cigarettes; Depression; Social care; Stress; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955529400     PISSN: 09654283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09654281111108544     Document Type: Article

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