Cultural Influences on Heavy Episodic Drinking among Latino College Students

文化对拉丁裔大学生间歇性饮酒的影响

• 批准号: 8453652
• 负责人: Lindsey Varvil-Weld
• 金额: $ 3.83万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-07 至 2014-09-06
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8453652
• 关键词: Accidental Injury; Accounting; Acculturation; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Attention; Attitude; Belief; Child; Collaborations; Country; Data; Development; Enrollment; Etiology; Family; Florida; Grant; Heavy Drinking; Home environment; International; Latino; Legal; Literature; Mediator of activation protein; Minority Groups; Modeling; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Peer Group; Population; Prevention; Prevention program; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Factors; Safety; Sampling; Site; Social Problems; Statistical Models; Students; Subgroup; Supervision; Testing; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Variant; Work; alcohol related consequences; base; binge drinking; college; college drinking; contextual factors; cultural values; design; drinking; emerging adulthood; ethnic minority population; follow-up; high risk behavior; parental influence; peer; peer influence; person centered; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cultural Influences on Heavy Episodic Drinking among Latino College Students Despite increasing prevention efforts, college student alcohol use continues to be a prevalent public health problem in the United States83 that is associated with a range of public safety issues on college campuses nationwide.31 To date, research on college student drinking has almost exclusively focused on non-Latino white samples, with very little attention to minority groups such as Latinos. Therefore, further exploration of the determinants of heavy drinking among Latino college students is necessary. Specifically, cultural factors that have been identified as potential influences on predictors of college student drinking deserve further examination. These cultural factors include acculturation (orientation to U.S./Latino culture), ethnic identity, and familismo (importance of family). Existing studies with Latino adolescents and college students have reported inconsistent findings with respect to the relationship between acculturation and alcohol use.21,23,25,27 Results have been similarly mixed with respect to ethnic identity and familismo as predictors of alcohol use.25,79,111 Researchers have suggested that discrepancies in these constructs between parents and their children (i.e., a cultural orientation "mismatch") may also be related to negative outcomes including alcohol use.86 However, this hypothesis has not been tested with Latino college students. The proposed project would address this issue using an advanced person-centered approach (latent profile analysis) to empirically identify distinct subgroups of parent- student dyads based on their cultural orientations. The second aim of the project would be to determine if the identified profiles differ in terms of drinking or alcohol-related consequences. If differenes emerge, follow-up analyses will explore potential mediators of group differences (i.e., parent behaviors, peer influences, etc.). Subgroup differences among Latino groups (e.g., Cubans) in relationships among cultural orientation profiles, mediators, and drinking and consequences will also be explored. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The current research will examine the association between cultural factors and other predictors of heavy episodic drinking among Latino college students (e.g., parent and peer influences, attitudes, beliefs). Findings have the potential to inform the development of prevention programs designed for Latino students, a largely understudied subgroup.

描述（申请人提供）：尽管预防工作不断增加，但大学生饮酒仍然是美国普遍存在的公共卫生问题，83与全国大学校园的一系列公共安全问题有关。很少关注拉丁美洲人等少数群体。因此，有必要进一步探讨拉丁美洲大学生酗酒的决定因素。具体来说，文化因素已被确定为对大学生预测因素的潜在影响， 饮酒值得进一步研究。这些文化因素包括文化适应（对美国/拉丁美洲文化），种族认同和家庭主义（家庭的重要性）。对拉丁裔青少年和大学生的现有研究报告了关于文化适应和饮酒之间关系的不一致结果。21，23，25，27关于种族认同和家庭主义作为饮酒预测因素的结果也类似地混合在一起。25，79，111研究人员认为，父母和孩子之间这些结构的差异（即，文化取向“不匹配”）也可能与包括饮酒在内的负面结果有关。86然而，这一假设尚未在拉丁美洲大学生中得到验证。拟议的项目将使用先进的以人为本的方法（潜在的档案分析）来解决这个问题，以经验为基础，确定不同的文化取向的父母-学生的二元组的亚组。该项目的第二个目的是确定所确定的概况在饮酒或与酒精有关的后果方面是否不同。如果出现差异，后续分析将探索群体差异的潜在介质（即，父母行为、同伴影响等）。拉丁美洲群体之间的亚组差异（例如，古巴人）之间的关系，文化取向配置文件，调解人，饮酒和后果也将进行探讨。 公共卫生相关性：目前的研究将检查文化因素与拉丁美洲大学生中严重饮酒的其他预测因素之间的关联（例如，父母和同伴的影响、态度、信仰）。研究结果有可能为拉丁裔学生设计的预防计划的发展提供信息，拉丁裔学生是一个在很大程度上未得到充分研究的亚组。