Prevalence and co-occurrence of addictive behaviors among former alternative high school youth

Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-40

  Sussman, Steve ^a   Arpawong, Thalida Em ^a   Sun, Ping ^a   Tsai, Jennifer ^a   Rohrbach, Louise A ^a   Spruijt Metz, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction groups; Co occurrence; Convergent validity; Latent class analysis; Multiple addictions; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900519735     PISSN: 20625871     EISSN: 20635303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/JBA.3.2014.005     Document Type: Article

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