Cultural Considerations in the Context of the I-PACE Model of Addictive Behaviors: Commentary on Lee et al.'s "Applying the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution Model to Addictive Behaviors in East Asian Countries: Feasibility and Considerations"

Acknowledgement

There was no direct funding specifically for this manuscript. The work of MB on this article was carried out in the context of the Research Unit ACSID, FOR2974, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)-411232260. MB is the spokesperson of this DFG-funded Research Unit.

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