The Role of Personality in Predicting Drug and Alcohol Use among Sexual Minorities

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 414-419

  Livingston, Nicholas A ^a   Oost, Kathryn M ^a   Heck, Nicholas C ^b   Cochran, Bryan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol use; drug use; LGBT; Personality traits; sexual minority stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ABUSE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MINORITY; TRANSGENDERISM; VICTIM; ADOLESCENT; BISEXUALITY; CRIME VICTIM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BISEXUALITY; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945955937     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/adb0000034     Document Type: Review

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