STRESS, RACE AND ALCOHOL USE IN A HOUSEHOLD POPULATION

一项关于酒精使用、压力和血压的两波纵向调查 最近完成了一个具有代表性的家庭样本，分层 关于种族和教育，以提供大致相同数量的白人和 受过低、中、高教育水平的成年黑人(1986年，N- 1932；1989，N-1616)。对数据的研究结果表明，饮酒预期 饮酒动机起着重要的调节和调节作用， 分别在压力-酒精-血压关系中。意义重大 也观察到了种族差异。 建议对以下数据进行横断面和纵向分析 第一波和第二波继续。第二波数据已可用于分析 只是从1990年8月开始，几乎没有时间进行系统性的 对所采取措施的纵向分析或横截面分析 到目前为止所做的分析提供了对 酒精使用/滥用和高血压的病因，从而强调 继续分析数据集的重要性。此外，鉴于 研究的广度和拟议结构方程的复杂性 分析，继续下去对于充分解决一些 到目前为止，我们在工作中发现了一些重大问题。还有人提议， 第三次住户调查将于1992年进行。第1波和第2波数据支持 一些调解的关系值得进一步调查。去做 这需要三波面板设计，其中第一波在前，第二波在前 中介者和第3波结果变量同时建模。三分之一 WAVE还将允许对假设的周期性 关系，以及两波纵向关系的检验 对于在第二波中引入的措施。 除了继续进行横截面和两波分析外，数据还显示 分析计划建议使用结构来检查三波面板模型 方程建模技术，可根据测量误差进行调整并允许 用于测量和预测的序列相关误差。 这一延续将作出一些重要贡献。会的 允许充分利用可用数据。雇佣一位经验丰富的 概念模型，这将是第一个三波小组研究 压力、酗酒/滥用和高血压之间的复杂关系。 最后，该示例允许对这些问题进行强有力的比较，具体如下 种族和性别。

A two-wave longitudinal survey of alcohol use, stress, and blood pressure was recently completed using a representative household sample, stratified on race and education to provide approximately equal numbers of white and black adults having low, middle, and high levels of education (1986, N- 1932; 1989, N-1616). Findings to data indicate that alcohol expectancies and motives for drinking play major moderate and mediating roles, respectively, in stress-alcohol-blood pressure relationships. Significant racial differences have also been observed. It is proposed that cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of data from Waves 1 and 2 be continued. Wave 2 data have been available for analysis only since August, 1990, allowing little time to conduct systematic longitudinal analyses, or cross-sectional analyses of measures introduced at Wave 2. Analyses done to date provide important insights into the etiology of alcohol use/abuse and hypertension, thus underscoring the importance of continued analysis of the data set. In addition, given the breadth of the study and the complexity of the proposed structural equation analyses, a continuation is essential to adequately address a number of significant issues identified in our work so far. It is also proposed that a third household survey be conducted in 1992. Wave 1 and 2 data support a number of mediated relationships worthy of further investigation. To do this requires a three-wave panel design in which Wave 1 antecedent, Wave 2 mediator, and Wave 3 outcome variables are modeled simultaneously. A third wave would also allow a full investigation of hypothesized cyclical relationships, and an examination of two-wave longitudinal relationships for measures introduced at Wave 2. In addition to continuing cross-sectional and two-wave analyses, the data analytic plan proposes to examine three-wave panel models using structural equation modeling techniques that adjust for measurement error and allow for serially correlated error of measurement and prediction. This continuation will make a number of important contributions. It will permit the full exploitation of available data. Employing a sophisticated conceptual model, it will be the first three-wave panel study of the complex relationships among stress, alcohol use/abuse, and hypertension. Finally, the sample permits powerful comparisons of these issues according to race and gender.