Alcohol Use Trajectories and the Ubiquitous Cat's Cradle: Cause for Concern?

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 322-335

  Sher, Kenneth J ^a,b   Jackson, Kristina M ^c   Steinley, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Midwest Alcoholism Research Center   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use; Growth mixture modeling; Longitudinal research; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE;

EID: 79955980901     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021813     Document Type: Article

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