'Off your Face(book)': Alcohol in online social identity construction and its relation to problem drinking in university students

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-26

  Ridout, Brad ^a   Campbell, Andrew ^a   Ellis, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Facebook; Internet; Social networking site; University student

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855328175     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2010.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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