"Above the Influence": How College Students Communicate About the Healthy Deviance of Alcohol Abstinence

Health Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 672-681

  Romo, Lynsey Kluever ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIVACY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PRIVACY; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864670826     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2011.629409     Document Type: Article

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