Acculturation and Drug Use in Family and Peer Contexts

家庭和同伴环境中的文化适应和药物使用

• 批准号: 7463695
• 负责人: LOURDES A. BAEZCONDE-GARBANATI
• 金额: $ 53.16万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-30 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7463695
• 关键词: 16 year old; Acculturation; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adopted; Adult; Affect; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Area; Assimilations; Attitude; Behavior; Buffers; California; Censuses; Characteristics; Child; Communication; Communities; Complex; Data; Development; Drug usage; Environment; Exposure to; Family; Family Relationship; Family member; Feeling; Friends; Generations; Health; Health Promotion; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Home environment; Immigrant; Institution; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Neighborhoods; Object Attachment; Occupational; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pathway Analysis; Pattern; Peer Group; Perception; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Population; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Prevention program; Process; Qualitative Research; Questionnaires; Range; Rate; Recommendation; Recruitment Activity; Religion and Spirituality; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Factors; Role; Schools; Shapes; Social Environment; Social Network; Social support; Socioeconomic Status; Structure; Students; Surveys; System; Time; Tobacco; United States; adolescent drug use; adolescent substance use; authority; base; cohort; cultural values; family influence; family structure; follow-up; high risk behavior; high school; interest; intergenerational; member; parental influence; peer; programs; protective behavior; psychologic; psychosocial; role model; social; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Among Hispanic-American adolescents, acculturation to the United States culture has been identified as a risk factor for substance use. However, the complexities of acculturation processes and their influences on health risk behaviors remain only partially understood. Previous studies of adolescent acculturation and its consequences have not considered the family and peer contexts in which acculturation and ethnic identity formation occur. Understanding the social contexts of acculturation is important because most psychosocial risk factors for adolescent substance use involve peer and family influences. In immigrant families, multiple generations of family members are acculturating, typically at differing rates and with different patterns. Parent-child discrepancies in acculturation patterns could affect parental authority and parent-child communication, which in turn might influence the adolescents' selection of peers and activities and ultimately the adolescents' involvement in substance use. This study will examine adolescent acculturation patterns in the family context, the effects of parent-child acculturation discrepancies on family functioning, the effects of family functioning on peer social networks, the effects of social networks on adolescent substance use, and the moderating effects of community SES. The study will consist of a year of qualitative and pilot research, followed by a three-year longitudinal study and a year of qualitative research to contextualize the quantitative results. Over a three-year period, high school students in 4 predominantly Hispanic high schools in Southern California representing a range of SES (N=2000) will complete questionnaires about their acculturation patterns and family functioning. Social network analysis will be used to describe the structure of the adolescents' social networks and the prevalence of substance use among social network members. We will geocode the students' home addresses and the addresses of their social network members and use U.S. Census data to estimate the socioeconomic characteristics of the neighborhoods in which the adolescents likely spend time. Analyses will be conducted to understand the psychosocial mechanisms by which family acculturation patterns influence the risk of adolescent substance use, and the role of the social network and neighborhood contexts on those processes. The results will provide important information that can be used to develop more effective substance use prevention programs for adolescents in acculturating families.

描述（由申请人提供）：在西班牙裔美国青少年中，对美国文化的适应性被确定为吸毒的危险因素。但是，适应过程的复杂性及其对健康风险行为的影响仍然仅部分理解。先前对青少年适应性及其后果的研究尚未考虑发生适应性和种族认同形成的家庭和同伴环境。了解适应的社会环境很重要，因为大多数青少年物质使用的心理社会风险因素都涉及同伴和家庭影响。在移民家庭中，几代家庭成员正在适应，通常以不同的速度和不同的模式。文化模式中的亲子差异可能会影响父母的权威和亲子的交流，这反过来可能会影响青少年选择的同龄人和活动，并最终影响青少年参与物质使用。这项研究将检查家庭环境中的青少年文化学院模式，亲子孩子的适应差异对家庭功能的影响，家庭功能对同伴社交网络的影响，社交网络对青少年物质使用的影响以及社区SES的调节作用。这项研究将包括一年的定性和试点研究，然后进行三年的纵向研究和一年的定性研究，以将定量结果与之相关。在三年的时间里，南加州的4个主要是西班牙裔高中的高中生代表了一系列SES（n = 2000），将填写有关其文化化模式和家庭功能的问卷。社交网络分析将用于描述青少年社交网络的结构以及社交网络成员之间使用物质使用的率。我们将地理编码学生的家庭住址及其社交网络成员的地址，并使用美国的人口普查数据来估计青少年可能花费时间的社区的社会经济特征。将进行分析，以了解家庭适应模式会影响青少年物质使用风险以及社交网络和邻里环境对这些过程的作用的心理社会机制。结果将提供重要的信息，可用于为青少年提供更有效的预防药物预防计划。