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Publication details [#44609]

Lederman, Linda C., Lea P. Stewart and Itzhak Yanovitzky. 2006. Social Distance, Perceived Drinking by Peers, and Alcohol Use by College Students. Journal of Health Communication 19 (1) : 1–10.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

drinking encounter | peer group | social distance | university

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This paper compares the relative weight of American college students' perceptions of alcohol use by distant versus proximate peers in the prediction of their own drinking behavior.