ADOLESCENT AOD USE AMONG ASIAN GROUPS

西南区域实验室（SWRL）建议进行为期两年的 对酒精、烟草和其他毒品的比较性、探索性调查 （ATOD）在五个亚裔美国人组的9年级和12年级学生中的使用情况， 洛杉矶和橙子郡。 亚裔美国人是最快的- 在南加州有越来越多的多样化的人口。 然而，研究 几乎只关注中国成年人的饮酒问题， 日本男性。 此外，越来越多的证据表明， 质疑所有亚裔美国人的长期假设， 特别是年轻人，他们滥用ATOD的风险非常低。 我们建议进行的校本调查有以下目的。 1.确定和绘制与毒品有关的变量的三个领域-使用 水平和行为，态度和规范，以及后果- 中国，日本，韩国，菲律宾和越南9日和12年级学生。 2. 在每组中探索ATOD使用的心理社会相关因素 这可以解释使用行为和问题的变化， 每个亚洲群体和人口统计子类别中的个人。 注意力将集中在社会化特征;心理 特征;家庭社会经济地位和环境 影响;文化认同/积累因素。 3. 进行组间比较分析， 药物变量的显著变化和共性。 4. 评估两种理论对每组的适用性 来自其他少数民族的研究：同伴集群理论和 正交文化认同理论 5. 为了通过比较使用相关的发现来扩大跨文化研究， 特别是与文化适应有关的数据， 美国西部的美国人和西班牙裔美国人 NIDA资助的三种族中心将与SWRL合作收集数据- 任务4和任务5的分析和跨文化比较。 以促进 这种合作和比较，我们将使用他们的美国药物， 酒精测试仪 在分析上述数据时，一般目标是评估 研究结果的预防、干预和一般政策含义 作为项目和政策制定的指导。 拟议 研究将填补重大的知识空白，并奠定所需的 每个群体进一步研究的基础和 解释模型 该项目还将增加不断增长的 相对可比的少数民族调查研究数据集， 对理解生物多样性的动力学 跨文化的青少年药物滥用

Southwest Regional Laboratory (SWRL) proposes to conduct a two-year comparative, exploratory survey of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among 9th and 12th graders in five Asian American groups in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Asian Americans constitute the fastest- growing, most diverse populations in Southern California. Yet, research has focused almost exclusively on drinking among adult Chinese and Japanese males. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence calls into question the long-standing assumption that all Asian Americans, particularly youth, are at very low risk for ATOD abuse. Our proposed school-based survey has the following objectives. 1. To determine and map three domains of drug-related variables - use levels and behaviors, attitudes and norms, and consequences - among Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese 9th & 12 graders. 2. To explore within each group the psychosocial correlates of ATOD use that may explain variations in use behaviors and problems among individuals within each Asian group and demographic subcategories. Attention will be focused on socialization characteristics; psychological characteristics; family socioeconomic status and environmental influences; and cultural identity/accumulation factors. 3. To conduct comparative analyses between groups to determine significant variations and commonalities in the drug variables. 4. To assess the applicability to each group of two theories developed from studies of other minority populations: the Peer Cluster Theory and the Orthogonal Cultural Identification Theory. 5. To expand crosscultural research by comparing use-correlate findings, particularly relating to acculturation, with comparative data on Native Americans and Hispanics in the Western U.S. The NIDA-funded Tri-Ethnic Center will collaborate with SWRL on the data- analysis and cross-cultural comparisons of tasks 4 & 5. To facilitate this collaboration and comparisons, we will be using their American Drug and Alcohol Survey instrument. In analyzing the above data, a general goal will be to asses the prevention, intervention, and general policy implications of the findings to use as guidance for program and policy development. The proposed research will fill significant knowledge gaps and lay the needed foundations for further studies of each group and the development of explanatory models. The project also will add to the growing store of relatively comparable ethnic-minority survey-research data sets and contribute significantly to the understanding of the dynamics of adolescent drug abuse crossculturally.