Acculturation Style and Alcohol Use Among African American College Students

Abdullah, Tahirah; Brown, Tamara L.

doi:10.1177/0095798411431981

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“…Consistent with the findings of Abdullah and Brown (2012) and Witbrodt, Mulia, Zemore, & Kerr (2014), this study provides additional evidence of the deleterious relationships between racism, discrimination, and acculturative stress on negative health behaviors (Dion, 2001;Harrell, Merritt, & Kalu, 1998;Krieger, 1999;Rollock & Gordon, 2000;Williams & Williams-Morris, 2000); extending this work to include risky alcohol use behaviors among Black college students. When considered independently, both race-related stress and acculturative stressors were positively associated with risky alcohol use and coping motivated drinking behaviors in Black college students.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

The cost of minority stress: Risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking behavior in African American college students

Pittman

Brooks

Kaur

et al. 2017

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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A motivational drinking framework is utilized to understand the relationship between minority stressors (e.g., race-related stress and acculturative stress) and alcohol use behaviors (risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking) among a large sample of Black American college students. Six hundred forty-nine Black college students from 8 colleges and universities in the United States were recruited as part of a large, multiwave, cross-sectional study investigating the stress and coping experiences of Black emerging adults. Results from the current investigation provide support for the independent contributions of acculturative stress and race-related stress to the risky alcohol use behavior of Black college students, while acculturative stress significantly predicted coping-motivated drinking behaviors in the sample. Findings underscore the need to better understand the unique relationships between minority stress and risky alcohol use behaviors of Black college students, namely, relationships not shared by their nonminority peers that increase their risk of problem drinking.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

The cost of minority stress: Risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking behavior in African American college students

Pittman

Brooks

Kaur

et al. 2017

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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“…Similarly, Blue and Berkel (2010) suggested that African American college students may internalize the dominant culture's views of body type and thinness, which may lead them to experience greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating patterns. Previous research has also shown that self-esteem and acculturation moderate the association between alcohol use and body image perception for African Americans (Abdullah & Brown, 2012). Thus, there may be acculturation and assimilation issues that may lead to psychological distress (e.g., anxiety, low self-esteem, poor body image; Blue & Berkel, 2010), and this psychological distress may then be exhibited in disordered eating behaviors, alcohol use, or other risky behaviors among African American college women.…”

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confidence: 97%

Protective Behavioral Strategies and Alcohol Use Outcomes Among College Women Drinkers

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The current study examined the degree to which associations that protective behavioral strategy use had with alcohol consumption and alcohol-related negative consequences were moderated by disordered eating and race. Participants were 382 female undergraduates (ages 18-25) who had consumed alcohol at least once within the previous month. Participants completed online self-report measures concerning their use of protective behavioral strategies, disordered eating, weekly alcohol consumption, harmful drinking patterns, and alcohol-related negative consequences. White non-Hispanic women who used the fewest protective behavioral strategies reported the highest levels of alcohol consumption and harmful drinking patterns. Protective behavioral strategy use was associated with lower levels of alcohol-related negative consequences except for African American women with low levels of disordered eating behaviors. For interventions targeting drinking among college women, disordered eating behaviors may increase risky behaviors and qualify relationships between protective behavioral strategies and alcohol-related negative consequences. Thus, assessment of disordered eating behavior as part of drinking interventions may be helpful.

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“…Researchers have also observed a link between alcohol abuse and acculturation among African Americans. For example, Abdullah and Brown (2012) used a bidirectional framework of acculturation and examined its relation to alcohol use among African American college students. Students who utilized a marginal acculturation strategy (i.e., those who rejected both African American and mainstream culture) reported less frequent drinking, while students with an assimilationist acculturative strategy (i.e., those who rejected African American culture in favor of mainstream culture) drank more frequently.…”

Section: Acculturationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting Can Be Stressful for African American Women: A Structural Mediation Model

Gamst

Arellano‐Morales

Meyers

et al. 2020

Journal of Black Psychology

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The present study was designed to examine shifting, the phenomenon of altering or modifying one’s self-presentation in different social contexts, as a mediator of the predictive effects of African American women’s acculturation on their perceived race-related stress. To explore this issue, measures of African American acculturation, shifting, and race-related stress were examined within a structural model. The current study quantitatively examined the relationships of these variables among a sample of 366 African American women. Results of a structural equation model indicated full mediation; greater levels of immersion in African American acculturation resulted in greater levels of shifting, which, in turn, generated increased levels of race-related stress. These data extend previous work and expand the literature regarding African American women’s shifting. Implications for clinical work and future research with African American women are also discussed.

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Acculturation Style and Alcohol Use Among African American College Students

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

The cost of minority stress: Risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking behavior in African American college students

The cost of minority stress: Risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking behavior in African American college students

Protective Behavioral Strategies and Alcohol Use Outcomes Among College Women Drinkers

Shifting Can Be Stressful for African American Women: A Structural Mediation Model

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