Alcohol Use among Latina/o Adolescents: The Role of Family and Peer Stressors

项目总结/摘要 新到美国的拉丁裔家庭的个人面临着重大的健康差异，包括 与酒精使用或滥用有关的身体和精神健康问题。尤其如此 第二代青少年和年轻人谁出生在美国，但至少有一个 外国出生的父母在美国，每四个人中就有一个是新移民家庭的成员， 拉丁裔是美国最大的移民群体。研究表明，拉丁裔青少年 新家庭的年轻人面临着独特的压力源，如与文化适应有关的家庭冲突。 然而，这方面的研究是有限的，学者们强调需要进一步调查。在 除了家庭压力外，同龄人的风险因素，如同龄人的物质使用，也与 青少年和年轻人的酒精使用。建议的研究旨在提高我们的 了解可能导致酒精使用和滥用的独特家庭和同伴压力源 拉丁美洲/o青少年和年轻人，特别是那些新来的家庭。 鉴于家庭作为集体主义文化中家庭成员社会支持来源的重要性（例如， 拉丁裔），家庭不和可能是特别紧张的年轻人在这些新的家庭。拟定研究 将审查家庭冲突，特别注意冲突的内容（即，一般、文化）和 冲突是否与青少年饮酒或酗酒有关。例如，家庭往往与移民 为儿童创造更美好生活的明确意图。本项目旨在研究家庭文化冲突 超越了文化适应。一个例子可能是新来家庭的亲子冲突， 认为孩子对父母的移民牺牲缺乏尊重。将开发和测试新的量表， 这样的家庭文化冲突。此外，尽管家庭在社会化方面发挥着核心作用， 在青少年的生活中，同伴环境在青少年时期尤为重要。然而， 关于同伴风险因素如何加剧家庭压力对酒精使用的影响的文献 这一差距将在本项目中得到解决，该项目将利用大量的国家小组数据 （监测未来）结合基于社区的样本的纵向调查数据。 因此，拟议的研究结果有可能为更有效的预防和干预提供信息。 努力降低拉丁美洲青少年和年轻人使用和滥用酒精的风险， 特别是新到美国的大量拉丁裔家庭。

Project Summary/Abstract Individuals in Latina/o families who are new to the United States face major health disparities, including physical and mental health problems specifically linked to alcohol use or abuse. This is particularly true for second-generation adolescents and young adults who were born in the United States but have at least one foreign-born parent. One out of every four individuals in the United States is a member of a newcomer family, and Latinos are the largest immigrant group in the United States. Research suggests that Latina/o adolescents and young adults in newcomer families face unique stressors such as family conflicts linked to acculturation. However, research in this area is limited and scholars have highlighted a need for further investigation. In addition to family stressors, peer risk factors, such as peer substance use, have also been connected to alcohol use among adolescents and young adults. The proposed research aims to enhance our understanding of unique family and peer stressors that may contribute to alcohol use and abuse among Latina/o adolescents and young adults, particularly those in newcomer families. Given the importance of family as a source of social support for family members in collectivistic cultures (e.g., Latino), family discord may be especially stressful for youth in these newcomer families. The proposed study will examine family conflict with specific attention to the content of the conflict (i.e., general, cultural) and whether conflict relates to adolescents’ alcohol use or abuse. For example, families often immigrate with the explicit intention of creating better lives for children. This project proposes to examine family cultural conflicts that go beyond acculturation. One illustration might be parent-child conflict in newcomer families due to perceived child’s lack of respect for parental immigration sacrifices. New scales will be developed and tested to measure such family cultural conflicts. Moreover, although families have a central socialization role in adolescents’ lives, the peer context is of heightened importance during adolescence. Yet there is a gap in the literature regarding how peer risk factors may exacerbate the effects of family stressors on alcohol use and abuse; this gap will be addressed in this project, which will make use of large national panel data (Monitoring The Future) combined with longitudinal survey data from a community-based sample. Thus, the proposed research findings have the potential to inform more effective prevention and intervention efforts aimed at decreasing the risk for alcohol use and abuse among Latina/o adolescents and young adults, in particular the significant population of Latina/o families who have newly arrived in the United States.