Understanding Networking and Alcohol Consumption among Recent Immigrants

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项拟议的研究探索了与社会学习理论一致的在社会网络中运行的机制。它规定了特定的社会环境是如何由网络调节以影响健康行为的，例如，文化适应导致改变网络的性质，然后影响健康行为，正如行为的生态框架所禁止的(Hovell等人)。在出版社；格拉斯等人。2005)。它将增加人们对社交网络和社会环境如何影响饮酒和相关健康风险的了解，以及移民和文化适应在这一过程中在美国两个迅速增长的第一代移民群体中所起的作用。第一代韩国人和说普通话的中国人经历了与移民到美国有关的破坏性、压力，有时甚至是创伤的经历，这些可能会导致酒精问题。该研究还调查了生态影响(例如，法律的执行、性别、当前和传统的文化规范等)。关于发展的社会网络的类型(例如，网络种族排他性的程度)以及不断演变的网络和生态对健康风险的综合影响。我们通过调查社交网络模式及其对饮酒行为的影响来解决这些问题，调查社交网络模式及其对饮酒行为的影响如何因文化适应、在美国居住的时间、年龄、性别、居住地点以及使用描述以前和现在的网络的报告而与原籍国的不同。这项研究的具体目的是：1)识别和描述第一代韩国和中国移民在移民时经历的社会网络和这些网络中的变化，以及这些网络是如何随着时间的推移而演变的；2)检验涉及特定的社会网络的内源性和外源性特征与涉及酒精的健康风险之间的关联的假设。这项研究将通过社会网络为设计健康干预措施提供信息，以有效地降低与酒精相关的健康风险。这项拟议的研究探索了社会网络内的机制，包括社会学习变量(包括行为模式、社会支持、控制饮酒的自我效能等)、文化适应和生态变量及其对社会网络内外以及第一代中国和韩国移民饮酒的影响。该研究旨在提供有关公共卫生干预目标的信息，以降低后续干预措施中因酒精导致的健康风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study explores mechanisms consistent with social learning theory that operate within social networks. It specifies how the specific social environments are mediated by the networks to influence health behaviors, e.g., acculturation results in changing networks whose properties then influence health behaviors, as proscribed by ecological frameworks of behavior (Hovell et al. In Press; Glass et al. 2005). It will increase knowledge of how social networks and the social environment influence alcohol consumption and related health risks and the role that immigration and acculturation play in that process among two first generation, rapidly growing, immigrant groups in the United States. First generation Koreans and Mandarin speaking Chinese experience the disruptive, stressful, and sometimes traumatic experiences associated with immigration to the U.S. and these may lead to problems with alcohol. The study also investigates ecological influences (e.g., enforcement of laws, gender, current and traditional cultural norms, etc.) on the types of social networks that develop, (e.g., extent of network ethnic exclusivity) and the combined influences of evolving networks and ecology on health risks. We address these concerns by investigating how social network patterns and their influence on drinking behaviors vary by acculturation, length of residence in the U.S., age, gender, residential location, and differ from that in the country of origin using reports describing previous and current networks. The specific aims for the study are to: 1) To identify and describe social networks and changes in these networks that first generation Korean and Chinese immigrants experience upon immigration, and how these networks evolve with time, and 2) to test hypotheses involving associations between specific endogenous and exogenous characteristics of social networks and health risks involving alcohol. This study will inform the design of health interventions through social networks to efficaciously reduce alcohol related health risks. The proposed study explores the mechanisms within social networks, including social learning variables (including the presence of models of behavior, social support, self efficacy to control drinking, and others), acculturation, and ecological variables and their effects on drinking inside and outside the social network, and among first generation Chinese and Korean immigrants to the U.S. It is designed to produce information concerning targets for public health interventions to reduce health risks due to alcohol for subsequent interventions.