Drinking motives and links to alcohol use in 13 European countries

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 428-437

  Kuntsche, Emmanuel ^a,b   Gabhainn, Saoirse Nic ^c   Roberts, Chris ^d   Windlin, Béat ^a   Vieno, Alessio ^e   Bendtsen, Pernille ^f   Hublet, Anne ^g   Tynjälä, Jorma ^h   Välimaa, Raili ^h   Dankulincová, Zuzana ⁱ   Aasvee, Katrin ^j   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^k   Farkas, Judit ^k   van Der Sluijs, Winfried ^l   de Matos, Margarida Gaspar ^m   Mazur, Joanna ⁿ   Wicki, Matthias ^a  

^a ADDICTION SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d WELSH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

ⁱ P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^k EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901663999     PISSN: 19371888     EISSN: 19384114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2014.75.428     Document Type: Article

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