DISTRESS AND ALCOHOL USE IN ETHNIC MINORITIES

这项研究是对 心理困扰与酒精/药物相互关系 在黑人、白色和美洲印第安人族群中使用。 五 将审查以下组成部分： (1)不同种族的酒精/药物使用的数量和频率 组 (2)文化适应和/或族裔认同在 心理困扰和酗酒/吸毒。 这也将 涉及在压力情况下的具体应对方式。 (3)社会经济地位在心理困扰中的作用， 酗酒/吸毒。 (4)民族认知风格的差异。 (5)心理测量的可靠性 种族群体。 这项研究采用了多种心理测量方法， 在一个验证性的层次模型的背景下， 痛苦 以前的研究已经证明了这种层次结构 结构来衡量心理困扰。 交叉- 种族差异是心理困扰将被审查， 强调了不同种族的酒精/毒品使用模式。 这 （a）澄清各项措施之间的相互关系， 心理困扰的种族群体， （B）识别可能的 文化特异性的痛苦调解人（例如，文化适应， 认知风格）;和（c）检查和阐明差异， 酒精/药物使用行为作为层次性痛苦的函数 构建文化特有的中介和应对机制。

The proposed research is an exploratory investigation of the interrelationship between psychological distress and alcohol/drug use across Black, White, and American Indian ethnic groups. Five components will be examined: (1) The amount and frequency of alcohol/drug use across ethnic groups. (2) The role of acculturation and/or ethnic identity in psychological distress and alcohol/drug use. This would also involve specific ways of coping in stressful situations. (3) The role of socieconomic status in psychological distress and alcohol/drug use. (4) The differences in cognitive style between ethnic groups. (5) The reliability of psychological measures within and across ethnic groups. The proposed study employs multiple measures of psychological distress in the context of a confirmatory hierarchial model of distress. Previous research has demonstrated this hierarchical structure to underly measures of psychological distress. Cross- ethnic differences is psychological distress will be examined to highlight patterns of alcohol/drug usage across ethnicities. This study should: (a) Clarify the interrelationships among measures of psychological distress across ethnic groups as determined in the context of a hierarchical model distress; (b) Identify possible culture-specific mediators of distress (e.g., acculturation, cognitive style); and (c) Examine and elucidate differences in alcohol/drug use behavior as a function of the hierarchial distress construct and culture-specific mediating and coping mechanisms.