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- Title
A Cultural and Social Cognitive Model ot Differences in Acculturation Orientations, Alcohol Expectancies, and Alcohol-Related Risk Behaviors Among Hispanic College Students.
- Authors
Des Rosiers, Sabrina E.; Schwartz, Seth J.; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Ham, Lindsay S.; Huang, Shi
- Abstract
Objectives: The present study used a cultural and social cognitive conceptual framework to investigate whether alcohol expectancies and valuations would mediate the associations between specific acculturation orientations and alcohol-related risk behaviors. Design: The sample comprised 1,527 Hispanic students attending colleges and universities in diverse regions of the United States. Respondents completed self-report measures of Hispanic and American cultural practices; alcohol expectancies and valuations; and self-reported frequency of hazardous alcohol use, binge drinking, sexual activity under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol, and riding with a drunk driver. Latent class analysis was used to classify participants into acculturation orientations. Results: Results indicated that acculturation orientations were differentially associated with alcohol-related risk outcomes, with separated bicultural and low bicultural orientations inversely related to all of the alcohol-related risk behaviors except for riding with a drunk driver. Negative expectancy valuations were positively associated with endorsement of binge drinking and drunk driving and negative expectancies were negatively associated with binge drinking, drunk driving, and riding with a drunk driver. With the exception of sexual activity under the influence of alcohol, the associations between acculturation orientations and alcohol-related risk behaviors were partially mediated by positive alcohol expectancies. Conclusions: Our findings provided relevant data that are informative for preventing alcohol and related risk behaviors among Hispanic college students.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLEGE students; ALCOHOL drinking; ALCOHOL &; Hispanic Americans; ALCOHOL drinking in college; PSYCHOLOGY of college students; ACCULTURATION; RISK-taking behavior; LATENT class analysis (Statistics); CROSS-cultural studies; COLLEGE student attitudes
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2013, Vol 69, Issue 4, p319
- ISSN
0021-9762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jclp.21859