Childhood Predictors and Mid-Adolescent Correlates of Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol Use among Male and Female Youth

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 698-716

  Weichold, Karina ^a   Wiesner, Margit F ^b   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Alcohol use; Germany; Growth mixture modeling; Longitudinal

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS; CHARACTER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMITATION; IMPULSIVENESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CHARACTER; COHORT STUDIES; CONDUCT DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL FACILITATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 84897964720     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-0014-6     Document Type: Article

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