This thesis examines the predictions of Jeffrey Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory in the development of smoking and hazardous drinking behaviours in young women. Impulsivity was found to significantly predict alcohol use and young women who smoked and drank at hazardous levels were significantly more impulsive than hazardous drinkers
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Submitted to the School of Psychology of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University
Supported by the portfolio "The utility of parent training for child behaviour difficulties."
