Alcohol Consumption Patterns in Immigrant and Later Generation Mexican American Women

Gilbert, Mark J.

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“…Higher levels of acculturation have been previously linked to use of alcohol (Caetano 1987;Gilbert 1987;Neff et al 1987), cigarettes (Love et al 2006), marijuana (Amaro et al 1990;Love et al 2006;Miller et al 2008b), cocaine (Amaro et al 1990;Miller et al 2008b), and hard drugs such as PCP, heroin, LSD, barbiturates, and amphetamines (Felix-Ortiz and Newcomb 1992). Other research, however, has suggested that any perceived link is somewhat spurious and that acculturation actually impacts drug use through socialization and psychological factors (Barrett et al 1991).…”

Section: Acculturation and Hispanic Drug Usementioning

confidence: 91%

“…Though reliable data on adolescent Hispanic substance use has proved elusive due to the issues discussed above, acculturation has remained a salient factor in most studies of the phenomenon (Neff et al 1987;Caetano 1987;Gilbert 1987;Amaro et al 1990;Love et al 2006;Miller et al 2008b). The traditional view of the acculturative process suggests that as individuals become more assimilated they begin to adopt customs and behaviors common to the new culture.…”

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confidence: 95%

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Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Miller

2010

Am J Crim Just

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Criminologists have largely neglected the influence of acculturation in the etiology of Hispanic drug use and delinquency. This is somewhat surprising since a long line of research from several disciplines has consistently linked higher levels of acculturation to greater incidence of negative social, health, and behavioral outcomes. A major shortcoming of this extant literature, however, is its failure to consider the acculturation-drug use link within a particular explanatory framework. This study attempts to address this oversight by examining the acculturation-drug use relationship within the context of gang membership, drug availability, and susceptibility to peer influence. Using data from a sample of Mexican-American adolescents residing in the American Southwest, a series of regression equations were estimated exploring the relative effects of acculturation, gang membership, drug availability, and susceptibility to peer influence on drug use. Separate analyses were conducted on minor (e.g., alcohol, marijuana) and major (e.g., cocaine, heroin) drug use. Findings indicated that all study variables, except acculturation, were significantly related to drug use.

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Section: Acculturation and Hispanic Drug Usementioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Acculturation and Hispanic Drug Usementioning

confidence: 95%

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Miller

2010

Am J Crim Just

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“…Adverse effects of acculturation have also been reported among Mexican Americans with respect to alcohol consumption patterns (Gilbert, 1989) and psychological distress (Kaplan and Marks, 1990). Indeed, intriguing questions have been raised by recent research on the mental health of ethnic minorities in the United States, including immigrants and refugees.…”

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Assimilation and Its Discontents: Between Rhetoric and Reality

Rumbaut¹

1997

International Migration Review

285

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The process of immigrant assimilation is typically and uncritically conceived as one of linear progress -becoming similar to the dominant group in the place of destination is presumed to be a good thing. But a compelling body of evidence on the adaptation of immigrants and their children points to a deterioration of outcomes over time and generation in the United States, as well as to nonlinear processes of change. While linguistic assimilation among children of immigrants does proceed rapidly and inexorably as a linear function, other outcomes -in such diverse areas as infant and adolescent health, diet and divorce, delinquency and risk behaviors, educational achievement and aspirations, an ethos of hard work, and the development of an ethnic identitycontradict conventional expectations, expose underlying ethnocentric pretensions, and point instead to assimilations discontents. By examining such paradoxes of immigrant adaptation that emerge in the conceptual interstices between rhetoric and reality, fruitful reformulations of a seminal sociological concept may be stimulated and advanced. © COPYRIGHT 1997 Center for Migration Studies of NewYork Inc.

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“…13,14,20,21 In summary, these data suggest that single female heads of household drink significantly more than women in coupleheaded families. This research indicates that single female heads of household are at increased risk for greater consumption of alcohol.…”

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Alcohol consumption patterns among Mexican American mothers and among children from single- and dual-headed households: findings from HHANES 1982-84.

Stroup-Benham¹,

Trevino²,

Treviño³

1990

Am J Public Health

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Data from the southwestern United States sample of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were employed to compare the patterns of alcohol use among Mexican American mothers and children in female-headed households with use patterns among mothers and children in couple-headed households. Single female heads of household drank more alcoholic beverages on more days than females from dual-headed households. As a whole, the children of single heads of household still living at IntroductionThe number of single female-headed families in the United States has been increasing during the past three decades. By 1984 over 25 percent of all families that included children were female-headed.' Data from Bean and Tienda2 indicate that 36.5 percent of Puerto Ricans, 18.9 percent of Mexican Americans, and 16.0 percent of Cuban Americans lived in single female-headed families in 1980.Studies indicate that Hispanic female-headed families are exposed to a variety of potential stressors, such as poverty,3.4 lack of health insurance,5 lack of child health care,6 and lack of social support.6.7 This suggests they may also be at higher risk for behaviors that have been associated with higher levels of stress, such as alcohol use. Women who had never been married or who were divorced or separated have been found to have lower rates of abstention and higher rates of heavier drinking,8 especially if cohabitating.In our analysis of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, we attempted to determine if mothers and children in female-headed households (i.e. no male head of household present) displayed alcohol drinking patterns that reflected a greater quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption than did the drinking patterns among the mothers and children from dual-headed households (i.e. both mother and father present) and if factors such as age, acculturation level, education level, and socioeconomic status modified any such relation between household type and drinking patterns. Previous studies9 have suggested that such factors are partially responsible for differences in behavior observed among single female heads of household and females from dual-headed households.

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Alcohol Consumption Patterns in Immigrant and Later Generation Mexican American Women

Cited by 71 publications

References 21 publications

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Acculturation, Social Context, and Drug Use: Findings from a Sample of Hispanic Adolescents

Assimilation and Its Discontents: Between Rhetoric and Reality

Alcohol consumption patterns among Mexican American mothers and among children from single- and dual-headed households: findings from HHANES 1982-84.

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