ETHNIC IDENTITY AND ALCOHOL AMONG BLACK ADOLESCENTS

申请人摘要：目前，预防研究领域受到 从少数族裔调查员的匮乏中脱身。这项提议的主要目标是 两年的学习是为了提高北卡罗来纳州两名教员的能力 中央大学(NCCU)，一所历史上的黑人院校，进行 在黑人青少年中饮酒和虐待方面的研究。在……里面 与北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院合作 (联合国儿童基金会)。RTI将为这些教师提供支持；(1)审查 黑人的民族认同与饮酒和虐待行为的关系 青少年；(2)评估种族认同作为威慑 酒精使用和滥用在其他心理社会变量的背景下 可能是黑人饮酒的危险因素或保护因素 青少年；(3)考察关键结构性因素对民族的影响 身份和酒精的使用和滥用；以及(4)检查 父母民族认同、青少年自身认同与青少年心理健康的关系 他们的酒精使用和滥用。此外，RTI和UNSOH将提供 为NCCU教职员工准备和提交自己的提案提供支持 以这些调查为基础的国家航空航天局。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: At present, the field of prevention research suffers from a dearth of minority investigators. The primary goal of this proposed two year study is to enhance the capacity of two faculty at North Carolina Central University(NCCU), an historically Black institution, to conduct research in the area of alcohol use and abuse among Black adolescents. In collaboration with the University of North Carolina School of Public Health (UNCSPH). RTI will support these faculty as they; (1) examine the relationship between ethnic identity and alcohol use and abuse among Black adolescents; (2) assess the importance of ethnic identity as a deterrent to alcohol use and abuse in the context of other psychosocial variables that may serve as either risk or protective factors for alcohol use among Black adolescents; (3) examine the influence of key structural factors on ethnic identity and alcohol use and abuse in this population; and (4) examine the relationship between parents ethnic identity, adolescents own identity, and their alcohol use and abuse. In addition, RTI and UNCSOH will provide support to the NCCU faculty as they prepare and submit their own proposals to NIAA that build on the foundation that these investigations will lay.