Indirect Effects of Loneliness on Substance Use through Stress

Health Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 513-518

  Segrin, Chris ^a   McNelis, Melissa ^a   Pavlich, Corey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; ROLE STRESS; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85011556901     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1278507     Document Type: Article

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