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: 8545520
• 负责人: Lindsey Varvil-Weld
• 金额: $ 3.25万
• 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 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8545520
• 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.

描述(申请人提供)：文化对拉丁裔大学生大量饮酒的影响尽管加大了预防力度，但大学生饮酒在美国仍然是一个普遍的公共卫生问题83，与全国大学校园的一系列公共安全问题有关。31迄今为止，关于大学生饮酒的研究几乎完全集中在非拉丁裔白人样本上，对拉丁裔等少数群体的关注很少。因此，有必要进一步探讨拉丁裔大学生酗酒的决定因素。具体地说，已被确定为对大学生预测因素有潜在影响的文化因素 饮酒值得进一步检查。这些文化因素包括文化适应(对美国/拉美文化的取向)、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的关系的不一致的结果。21、23、25、27关于种族认同和家族主义作为饮酒预测因素的结果类似地混合在一起。25、79、111研究人员指出，父母和他们的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后果有关。86然而，这一假设尚未在拉美裔大学生中得到检验。拟议的项目将使用先进的以人为中心的方法(潜在侧写分析)来解决这一问题，以经验地根据父母-学生二元组的文化取向识别不同的亚组。该项目的第二个目标将是确定已确定的特征在饮酒或与酒精相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中介因素(即父母行为、同伴影响等)。还将探讨拉美裔群体(例如古巴人)在文化取向、调解人和饮酒及其后果之间的关系上的亚群差异。