ALCOHOL USE AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS

申请人摘要：这项拟议的研究旨在帮助 开发关于酒精使用和酒精的适当知识库 非裔美国大学生中的相关问题。这样的信息 将有助于预防性干预的设计和实施 为正在上大学的年轻黑人成年人提供的计划。对于预防计划而言 要有效，就必须利用研究来确定群体 面临风险，他们面临风险的原因，以及可能导致 这种风险。与风险增加相关的重大可修改因素必须是 学习。在设计和实施预防性干预之前 然而，针对大学生饮酒及相关问题的项目， 我们需要更多地了解少数民族大学生的经历， 他们的问题，以及这些问题与白人的不同或相同之处 学生们。关于可能减轻饮酒影响的因素的知识 年轻人的行为也是必不可少的。 本次调查的具体目的是对 非裔美国人和白人大学生，1)确定 压力和饮酒动机对黑人和白人饮酒和问题的影响 大学生；2)调查族群关系 黑人和白人对酒精使用的认同及相关问题 以及3)扩展上述分析，考察种族问题 群体认同可能与压力和影响动机相互作用 黑人和白人大学生饮酒情况及相关问题分析。一个 密歇根州大学生邮寄调查计划对此进行调查 明确的目标。

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: This proposed research is designed to aid in the development of an adequate knowledge base concerning alcohol use and alcohol related problems among African-American college students. Such information will be useful for the design and implementation of preventive intervention programs for young black adults who are in college. For prevention programs to be effective, it is essential that research be utilized to identify the groups at risk, what they are at risk for, and the mechanisms which may contribute to that risk. Significant modifiable factors related to increased risk must be studied. Before the design and implementation of preventive intervention programs for alcohol use and related problems among college students, however, we need to know more about the experience of minority group college students, their problems, and how these may differ or be the same as those for white students. Knowledge concerning factors which may lessen the impact of drinking behavior on young adults is also essential. The specific aims of this investigation are to conduct a study of African-American and white college students, 1) to ascertain the impact of stress and drinking motives on alcohol use and problems among black and white college students; 2) to investigate the relationship of racial group identification to alcohol use and related problems among black and white college students; and 3) to extend the above analysis and examine how racial group identification may interact with the stress and motives to impact alcohol use and related problems among black and white college students. A mail survey of college students in Michigan is proposed to investigate these specific aims.