Chinese male addicts' drug craving and their global and contingent self-esteem

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 907-919

  Chen, Xiao ^a   Ye, Jun ^a   Zhou, Hui ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Contingent self esteem; Drug addiction; Drug craving; Drug use; Global self esteem; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880379400     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2013.41.6.907     Document Type: Article

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