Alcohol-related problems among black, Hispanic and white men: the contribution of neighborhood poverty.

Jones‐Webb, Rhonda; Snowden, Lonnie R.; Herd, Denise; Short, Brian; Hannan, Peter J.

doi:10.15288/jsa.1997.58.539

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“…Other research has found poverty to be associated with alcohol problems, particularly neighborhood-level poverty and long-term poverty (Jones-Webb et al, 1997;Khan et al, 2002;Kost and Smyth, 2002).…”

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“…Further, both forms of social disadvantage-that is, poverty (Caetano and Clark, 2000;Herd, 1994;Jones-Webb et al, 1997) and racial discrimination (Herd, 1987;JonesWebb et al, 1995)-are thought to contribute to drinking problems in minority groups. In a review of research on alcohol consumption among racial and ethnic minorities, Caetano and colleagues (1998) identifi ed stress as a central unifying theme that underlies issues related to minority status, socioeconomic position, and acculturation.…”

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Social Disadvantage, Stress, and Alcohol Use Among Black, Hispanic, and White Americans: Findings From the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey

Mulia

Zemore

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Social Disadvantage, Stress, and Alcohol Use Among Black, Hispanic, and White Americans: Findings From the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey

Mulia

Zemore

et al. 2008

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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“…Previous studies have provided evidence of an association between neighborhood disadvantage and drinking behaviors, 40,54,55 and several studies have shown an association between possible neighborhood psychosocial hazards-neighborhood physical decay and perceived neighborhood disorder-and drinking. 39,[44][45][46] Our results extend this literature by (1) studying the relationship among late middle-aged adults, (2) accounting for male/female differences, and (3) using a theory-guided summary measure of neighborhood psychosocial hazards.…”

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Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

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Older adults may be more vulnerable to negative health effects from alcohol as they age. Distress and adverse neighborhood conditions that provoke distress may influence drinking behavior. Using baseline data from the Baltimore Memory Study, a cohort study of adults aged 50-70 years living in 65 Baltimore City neighborhoods, we investigated the association between neighborhood psychosocial hazards (NPH) and the number of binge drinking days in the past month among non-abstainers (N0645). We used negative binomial regression with generalized estimating equations to estimate the relative number of binge drinking days per month associated with a one standard deviation increase in NPH score. Residing in neighborhoods with more psychosocial hazards was independently associated with more binge drinking for females, but not for males. For females, each one standard deviation increase in NPH score was associated with a 1.52 relative risk of binge drinking (95 % confidence interval, 1.10, 2. 10) in the adjusted model. The findings were robust to a sensitivity analysis in which we used the average number of drinks per drinking occasion as an alternative outcome. Our findings provide evidence linking adverse neighborhood conditions with alcohol consumption in non-abstaining late middle-aged women, and suggest that late middle-aged men and women may have different reactions to adverse residential neighborhoods.

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“…A few studies, however, have examined interactive effects between race or ethnicity and socioeconomic disadvantage. For example, analyzing 1984 NAS data, a study by Jones-Webb et al (1997) found that associations between neighborhood poverty and alcohol problems were stronger among Blacks than Whites. Similarly, other studies have reported stronger associations between low income and alcohol problems among Black men than among White men (Barr et al, 1993) and between low education and remission from alcohol problems among Blacks and Hispanics compared with Whites (Caetano and Kaskutas, 1996).…”

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Racial Prejudice and Unfair Treatment: Interactive Effects With Poverty and Foreign Nativity on Problem Drinking

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Karriker‐Jaffe²,

Keithly³

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ABSTRACT. Objective: Although racial and ethnic minorities are often disadvantaged in multiple ways, little research has examined the interactive effects of multiple forms of disadvantage in these populations. The current study describes the independent and interactive effects of perceived prejudice, perceived unfair treatment, poverty, and foreign nativity on problem drinking outcomes among Black and Latino adults. Method: The data source was Black (n = 504) and Latino (n = 766) drinkers from the nationally representative, weighted 2005 National Alcohol Survey. Perceived prejudice was assessed using a composite measure of racial stigma consciousness; perceived unfair treatment was assessed using a single item. Respondents whose per capita household income was below the 2004 poverty guidelines were coded as "poor"; nativity status was assessed among Latinos. Outcomes included past-year drinking to drunkenness, any drinking-related consequences, and two or more dependence symptoms. Results: In bivariate tests, higher levels of unfair treatment were signifi cantly associated with all three outcomes among Blacks (marginally so for drunkenness) and dependence symptoms among Latinos. Further, higher racial stigma was signifi cantly associated with higher rates of any drinking consequences among Latinos. In multivariate logistic regressions, six signifi cant or marginally signifi cant interactions emerged. For each, the pattern of results suggested stronger associations between perceived prejudice/unfair treatment and problem drinking given either poverty or foreign nativity. Conclusions: Although fi ndings were somewhat mixed, the pattern of results tentatively supports the hypothesis that associations between problem drinking and both prejudice and unfair treatment can be exacerbated given the presence of other stressors, particularly among Latinos. Results extend the literature on the health consequences of prejudice and discrimination, highlighting important effects of cumulative adversity and suggesting a need to focus particularly on drinkers exposed to the combined effects of multiple stressors in prevention and treatment efforts. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 72, 361-370, 2011)

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Alcohol-related problems among black, Hispanic and white men: the contribution of neighborhood poverty.

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Social Disadvantage, Stress, and Alcohol Use Among Black, Hispanic, and White Americans: Findings From the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey

Social Disadvantage, Stress, and Alcohol Use Among Black, Hispanic, and White Americans: Findings From the 2005 U.S. National Alcohol Survey

Neighborhood Psychosocial Hazards and Binge Drinking among Late Middle-Aged Adults

Racial Prejudice and Unfair Treatment: Interactive Effects With Poverty and Foreign Nativity on Problem Drinking

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