DISTRESS AND ALCOHOL USE IN ETHNIC MINORITIES

少数民族的困境和酗酒

• 批准号: 3452675
• 负责人: JULIAN F. THAYER
• 金额: $ 8.17万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-07-01 至 1991-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3452675
• 关键词: African American; Native Americans; alcoholic beverage consumption; behavior test; caucasian American; cognition; coping; culture; drug abuse; human subject; identity; psychological models; psychological stressor; questionnaires; social adjustment; socioeconomics; socioenvironment; stress

The proposed research is an exploratory investigation of the interrelationship between psychological distress and alcohol/drug use across Black, White, and American Indian ethnic groups. Five components will be examined: (1) The amount and frequency of alcohol/drug use across ethnic groups. (2) The role of acculturation and/or ethnic identity in psychological distress and alcohol/drug use. This would also involve specific ways of coping in stressful situations. (3) The role of socieconomic status in psychological distress and alcohol/drug use. (4) The differences in cognitive style between ethnic groups. (5) The reliability of psychological measures within and across ethnic groups. The proposed study employs multiple measures of psychological distress in the context of a confirmatory hierarchial model of distress. Previous research has demonstrated this hierarchical structure to underly measures of psychological distress. Cross- ethnic differences is psychological distress will be examined to highlight patterns of alcohol/drug usage across ethnicities. This study should: (a) Clarify the interrelationships among measures of psychological distress across ethnic groups as determined in the context of a hierarchical model distress; (b) Identify possible culture-specific mediators of distress (e.g., acculturation, cognitive style); and (c) Examine and elucidate differences in alcohol/drug use behavior as a function of the hierarchial distress construct and culture-specific mediating and coping mechanisms.

拟议的研究是一项探索性调查 心理困扰与酒精/药物之间的相互关系 在黑人、白人和美洲印第安人族群中使用。 五 将检查组件： (1) 不同种族饮酒/吸毒的数量和频率 组。 (2) 文化适应和/或民族认同的作用 心理困扰和酗酒/吸毒。 这也将 涉及应对压力情况的具体方法。 (3) 社会经济地位在心理困扰和心理困扰中的作用 酒精/药物的使用。 (4)民族间认知方式的差异。 (5) 内部和外部心理测量的可靠性 族裔群体。 拟议的研究采用了多种心理测量方法 确认性等级模型背景下的困境 苦恼。 先前的研究已经证明了这种层次结构 心理困扰的基本测量结构。 叉- 种族差异是心理困扰，将进行检查 强调不同种族的酒精/药物使用模式。 这 研究应当： (a) 澄清各项措施之间的相互关系 各族裔群体的心理困扰 分层模型困境的背景； (b) 确定可能的情况 特定于文化的痛苦中介因素（例如，文化适应、 认知风格）； (c) 检查并阐明以下方面的差异： 酒精/药物使用行为作为等级困境的函数 构建特定于文化的调解和应对机制。