College Students' Drinking Motives and Social-Contextual Factors: Comparing Associations Across Levels of Analysis

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 420-429

  O'Hara, Ross E ^a,c   Armeli, Stephen ^b   Tennen, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Persistence Plus LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

college students; daily diary; Drinking motives; social context

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT ATTITUDE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; COLLEGE DRINKING; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING IN COLLEGE; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946477475     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: 19391501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/adb0000046     Document Type: Article

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