Acculturation, Substance Use, and Deviant Behavior: Examining Separation and Family Conflict as Mediators

McQueen, Amy; Getz, J. Greg; Bray, James H.

doi:10.1046/j.1467-8624.2003.00635.x

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“…Contrary to expectations, there was no association between the other four potential mediators (depressive symptoms, self-esteem, family stress, parent conflict) and either acculturation or alcohol use. Prior research has linked these factors to alcohol use among non-Latino college students (Baer, 2002), and one study found that family conflict mediated between acculturation and substance use among Mexican American high school students (McQueen et al, 2003). Additional research is needed to replicate these findings and identify other mediators of the relation between acculturation and alcohol use among Latina college students.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a recent study of Mexican American adolescents, family conflict mediated associations between acculturation and substance use (McQueen, Getz, and Bray, 2003). Other research indicates that conflict in Latino families may be associated with acculturation-related issues (Vega and Gil, 1999).…”

Section: Acculturation Gender and Alcohol Use: Potential Interveninmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In addition, episodic heavy drinking was defined as five or more drinks in one sitting (the same definition used in many national studies of college student drinking; O'Malley and Johnston, 2002), rather than differentiating by gender (e.g., 5 or more drinks for men, 4 or more for women) or taking factors such as weight into account (Dowdall and Wechsler, 2002). Moreover, although language is a key indicator of acculturation (Marín and Marín, 1991) that is associated with alcohol use among Mexican American adults (Marín and Posner, 1995) and multiple types of substance use among Latino adolescents (McQueen et al, 2003), it does not directly index psychological aspects of cultural adaptation. It would be informative to replicate the study using other measures of alcohol use and a multidimensional measure of acculturation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students

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Iturbide

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(L.J. Crockett). AbstractPrior research with non-college samples of Mexican Americans has demonstrated that gender moderates the association between acculturation and alcohol use. We replicated this finding in a college student sample and attempted to account for the differential impact of acculturation on Mexican American men and women by examining the mediating effects of social context, family conflict and psychological functioning. Participants were 148 Mexican Americans (67% female; M age 23 years) from three state universities in California and Texas who completed self-report surveys. In multivariate analyses controlling for age, maternal education, living situation, and site, linguistic acculturation was associated with increased alcohol use and misuse among women but not men. Two social context variables (social facilitation and family drinking) mediated the association between acculturation and alcohol use (heavy drinking, past year alcohol use, and a composite drinking variable) among women. The findings highlight the importance of social context for understanding alcohol use by Latina college students and indicate directions for future research and intervention development.

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Section: Acculturation Gender and Alcohol Use: Potential Interveninmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students

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“…The nature of these connections within the family may also be a strong factor in health. Some studies have found that for Latinos, family conflict was related to increased emotional distress and other health risk behaviors (McQueen, Getz, & Bray, 2003;Tschann, Flores, Marin, Pasch, Baisch, & Wibbelsman, 2002). Others have argued that changes in the structure of the Latino family across generations may increase stress thus negatively affecting Latinos' mental health (Alegría, Mulvaney-Day, Torres, Polo, Cao, & Canino, in press).…”

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Social cohesion, social support, and health among Latinos in the United States

Mulvaney-Day

Alegrı́a

Sribney

2007

Social Science & Medicine

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The role of individual versus community level social connections in promoting health is an important factor to consider when addressing Latino health. This analysis examines the relationships between social support, social cohesion, and health in a sample of Latinos in the United States. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study, the analysis uses ordered logistic regression to explore the relationships of family support, friend support, family cultural conflict, and neighborhood social cohesion with self-rated physical and mental health, taking into account language proficiency and use, nativity, and sociodemographic variables. Family support, friend support, and neighborhood social cohesion were positively related to selfrated physical and mental health, and family cultural conflict was negatively related when controlled only for sex and age. After controlling for education, income, and other demographic measures, only family support was found to have a weak association with self-rated physical health; however, the relationship seemed to be mediated by language. In contrast, family support and family cultural conflict were strongly associated with self-rated mental health, after controlling for language, education, income, and other demographic measures. The study did not find neighborhood social cohesion to be significantly related to either self-rated physical or mental health, after accounting for the effects of the other social connection variables. Language of interview did not explain the highly significant effects of language proficiency and use. Social connections are important for health and mental health, but language and other sociodemographic factors seem to be related to how Latinos establish these social linkages. Further investigation into the role of language in the development and maintenance of social connections may help unravel the mechanisms by which they promote or decrease health.

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“…Not surprisingly, the stress of the acculturation process can cause psychological and behavioral problems among adolescents. Among Hispanic-American adolescents, acculturation to the United States culture has been associated with an increased risk of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use [2][3][4][5][6][7]. The association between acculturation and substance use probably involves several mechanisms, including the more individualistic and rebellious social norms for adolescents in the United States, loss or rejection of traditional Hispanic cultural norms such as familism [8,9], and the stress of navigating two cultures simultaneously and feeling marginalized from one or both of those cultures [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

Parent–Child Acculturation Discrepancies as a Risk Factor for Substance Use among Hispanic Adolescents in Southern California

Unger

Ritt-Olson

Soto

et al. 2007

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Theories of acculturation predict that discrepancies in cultural orientation between adolescents and their parents will increase the adolescents' risk for behavior problems such as substance use. This study evaluated this hypothesis in a sample of 1772 Hispanic 9th grade students in Southern California. Parent-child discrepancy in U.S. orientation (defined as the difference between the child's U.S. orientation and the child's perception of the parents' U.S. orientation) was a risk factor for past-month smoking, lifetime and past-month alcohol use, and lifetime and past-month marijuana use. Parent-child discrepancy in Hispanic orientation (defined as the difference between the child's Hispanic orientation and the child's perception of the parents' Hispanic orientation) was a risk factor for lifetime and past-month alcohol and marijuana use. The adolescents' own Hispanic orientation was protective against lifetime and past-month smoking and marijuana use, but not alcohol use. In an analysis of mediation, U.S. acculturation discrepancy was associated with lower levels of family cohesion, which in turn was associated with higher levels of substance use. Results suggest that family-based interventions for acculturating and bicultural Hispanic families may be useful in decreasing the likelihood of substance use among Hispanic adolescents.

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Acculturation, Substance Use, and Deviant Behavior: Examining Separation and Family Conflict as Mediators

Cited by 109 publications

References 76 publications

Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students

Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students

Social cohesion, social support, and health among Latinos in the United States

Parent–Child Acculturation Discrepancies as a Risk Factor for Substance Use among Hispanic Adolescents in Southern California

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