Coping with racial discrimination: The role of substance use

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 550-560

  Gerrard, Meg ^a   Stock, Michelle L ^b   Roberts, Megan E ^c   Gibbons, Frederick X ^c   O'Hara, Ross E ^c   Weng, Chih Yuan ^d   Wills, Thomas A ^e  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; coping; discrimination; substance use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CANNABIS SMOKING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; RACISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADDICTION; AGE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INDIVIDUALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

STREET DRUG;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUSALITY; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RACISM; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875082846     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027711     Document Type: Article

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