Developmental Pathways to Substance Use Across European & Asian American Youth

描述(申请人提供)：作为美国增长最快的少数族裔群体之一，美国人的酒精和毒品使用越来越被认为是一个公共卫生问题。新出现的研究记录了与亚裔美国青年成年人饮酒有关的生物学、心理社会和文化因素(Hendershot等人，2005年)。然而，现有的研究既没有采用发展的观点来研究亚裔美国人在青春期后期出现的酒精使用和问题，也没有测试之前的发现是否可以推广到预测药物使用和问题。与此同时，来自另一项研究的证据表明，养育子女的效果在亚裔和欧洲裔美国年轻人中往往是不同的。例如，许多研究表明，威权主义的育儿方式对亚裔美国青年有有利影响，但对欧洲裔美国青年的学习成绩和社会情感能力等结果有不利影响。后来的研究表明，父母的情感支持和心理控制等结构在亚裔和欧洲裔美国青少年中也可能具有不同的影响(如Chao&Tseng，2002)。尽管有这些发现，但没有发表的研究记录了养育方式对亚裔和欧洲裔美国年轻人饮酒和吸毒的不同影响。因此，这项研究的首要目标是在亚裔和欧洲裔美国青年的纵向样本中，检查种族对父母教养方式、酒精和药物使用结果之间关系的缓和效应。具体地说，这项拟议的研究将测试父母的情感支持、心理控制和监测是否对亚裔和欧洲裔美国年轻人的酒精和药物使用结果产生不同的影响。数据将来自97名亚裔美国人和255名欧洲裔美国青年，他们参与了发展之路项目。结构方程模型和因素分析技术将被用来检验(1)7年级的父母情感支持、心理控制和监控是否会在亚裔和欧洲裔美国青少年中差异地预测9年级和12年级的酒精和药物使用结果；(2)从父母养育到酒精和药物使用的发展路径(通过8年级的学业成绩和同伴物质使用)是否在亚洲和欧洲美国青少年中有所不同；(3)假设的种族调节效应是否可以归因于先前研究(例如Chao&Aque，2009)对父母养育的不同解释(例如Chao&Aque，2009)。这项拟议的研究结果可以用来指导制定对亚裔美国青年饮酒和吸毒具有文化敏感性的预防和干预计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As one of the fastest growing ethnic minority groups in the United States, alcohol and drug use in American Americans has increasingly been recognized as a public health problem. Emerging research has documented biological, psychosocial, and cultural factors that are associated with alcohol use in Asian American youth adults (Hendershot et al., 2005). However, existing studies have neither adopted a developmental perspective to study the emergence of alcohol use and problems in Asian American during late adolescence, nor have they tested whether prior findings can be generalized to predict drug use and problems. Concurrently, evidence from a separate line of research has suggested that effects of parenting are often different across Asian and European American youth. Numerous studies, for example, have suggested that authoritarian parenting style has beneficial effects in Asian American youth, but detrimental effects in European American youth on outcomes such as academic performance and socio-emotional competence. Subsequent research has indicated that parental constructs such as emotional support and psychological control may also have differential effects across Asian and European American youth (e.g., Chao & Tseng, 2002). Despite these findings, no published study has documented differential effects of parenting on alcohol and drug use across Asian and European American youth. Thus, the overarching goal of this study is to examine moderation effects by ethnicity on the association between parenting and alcohol and drug use outcomes in a longitudinal sample of Asian and European American youth. Specifically, the proposed study will test whether parental emotional support, psychological control and monitoring have differential effects on alcohol and drug use outcomes across Asian and European American youth. Data will be drawn from 97 Asian American and 255 European American youth who participated in the Developmental Pathway Project. Structural equation modeling and factor analysis techniques will be used to test (1) whether parental emotional support, psychological control, and monitoring in 7th grade will differentially predict alcohol and drug use outcomes in 9th and 12th grade across Asian and European American youth; (2) whether developmental pathways from parenting to alcohol and drug use outcomes (via school achievement and peer substance use in 8th grade) are different across Asian and European American youth; and (3) whether the hypothesized moderation effects by ethnicity can be attributed to different interpretation of parenting, as suggested by prior research (e.g., Chao & Aque, 2009). Results from the proposed study can be used to guide the development of culturally sensitive prevention and intervention programs for alcohol and drug use in Asian American youth.