Ethnic Identity, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Consequences Among Alaska Native and Non-Native College Students

Skewes, Monica C.; Blume, Arthur W.

doi:10.1080/15332640.2014.958641

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“…Although few studies have focused on AI/AN college students, in a survey conducted in Alaska, AI/AN students reported greater alcohol-related consequences than non-AI/ANs (Skewes & Blume, 2015). This is particularly concerning as college students have markedly high rates of heavy drinking, serious alcohol consequences, and alcohol use disorders (Courtney & Polich, 2009; Hingson, Zha, & Weitzman, 2009; Hingson & White, 2014).…”

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Association of belief in the “firewater myth” with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink.

Gonzalez¹,

Skewes²

2018

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Belief in an American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) specific biological vulnerability (BV) to alcohol problems (aka the "firewater myth") is associated with worse alcohol outcomes among AI/AN college students who drink, despite also being associated with greater attempts to reduce drinking. The current study examined how belief in a BV may have affected how 157 AI/AN college students who drink (a) attempted to moderate their alcohol use and avoid alcohol-related problems using abstinence-based and harm reduction strategies, and (b) attitudes toward these strategies as a means of addressing alcohol problems. Contrary to our hypotheses, belief in a BV was not found to be associated with use of harm reduction strategies or with how effective students believed these strategies to be. However, greater belief in a BV was associated with lower self-efficacy for the use of harm reduction strategies among more frequent heavy episodic drinkers. This is concerning, as the use of harm reduction strategies was associated with less frequent heavy episodic drinking in this sample. In contrast, belief in a BV was positively associated with the use of abstinence-based strategies and with how effective these strategies were perceived to be. However, for individuals with average or greater belief in a BV, abstinence-based strategies were associated with greater alcohol consequences. The results suggest that for AI/AN students who drink, belief in a BV may be influencing the strategies used to moderate alcohol use and avoid alcohol-related harm, as well as attitudes toward these strategies, in ways that do not appear helpful. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Association of belief in the “firewater myth” with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink.

Gonzalez¹,

Skewes²

2018

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…Subsequently, AI adolescents may turn to alcohol use to cope with negative mood (Yuan et al, 2010) stemming from these beliefs. Indeed, negative reinforcement (Baker et al, 2004) and self‐medication (Khantzian, 1997) models suggest a central function of affect modulation for alcohol use broadly and specifically in the context of depression (Bolton et al, 2009; Turner et al, 2018), including among AI communities (Skewes & Blume, 2015; Stewart et al, 2011).…”

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Depression and alcohol use in American Indian adolescents: The influence of family factors

Schick

Nalven

Thomas

et al. 2022

Alcoholism Clin & Exp Res

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Background Rates of both depression and alcohol use are disproportionately higher among American Indian (AI) adolescents than adolescents in the general population. The co‐occurrence of depression and alcohol use is common and clinically relevant given their reciprocal negative influences on outcomes. Family factors may be especially relevant because they could have a buffering effect on this relationship due to the importance of kinship and community in AI communities. The current study examines the roles of family warmth and parental monitoring in the association between depressive symptoms and alcohol use in a large, nationally representative sample of AI adolescents. Methods Data were collected from 3498 AI 7th to 12th graders (47.8% female) residing on or near a reservation during the period 2009 to 2013. Participants reported on their depressive symptoms, family factors, and alcohol use. Results There was a small, but statistically significant positive association between depressive symptoms and alcohol use (r = 0.11, p < 0.001). Greater depressive symptoms were associated with significantly less perceived family warmth (β = −0.09, 95% CI [−0.13, −0.06]), which was associated with significantly greater alcohol use (β = −0.39, 95% CI [−0.55, −0.23]). Family warmth significantly accounted for the association between depressive symptoms and alcohol use at high (β = 0.04, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [0.004, 0.09]), but not low, levels of parental monitoring (β = 0.02, SE = 0.02, 95% CI [−0.002, 0.06]). Conclusions Results of the present study suggest that developing culturally sensitive prevention and treatment approaches focusing on increasing both family warmth and parental monitoring are important to address the co‐occurrence of depression and alcohol misuse among AI adolescents.

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“…Also, drinking to cope may confer additional risk above and beyond the effects of consumption. Coping motives for alcohol use have been shown to predict alcohol consequences even when controlling for consumption (Skewes & Blume, 2015) and should be addressed in efforts to mitigate both problematic drinking and college sexual assault.…”

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Alcohol Consumption, History of Sexual Assault in Adolescence, and Revictimization in a Sample of University Students in the Western United States

DeCou

Skewes

2017

J Interpers Violence

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This study evaluated alcohol consumption as a moderator of the association between adolescent sexual assault and risk of sexual assault in college. It was hypothesized that sexual assault in adolescence would be associated with higher risk of college victimization and that this association would be moderated by alcohol consumption. Predominantly female and European-American university students ( N = 201) completed self-report measures of alcohol consumption and sexual assault victimization in adolescence and since enrolling in college at a medium-sized university in the Western United States. Controlling for effects of age and gender, there was a significant interaction between alcohol consumption variables (i.e., typical weekly alcohol consumption and binge drinking) and adolescent sexual assault, such that the greatest risk for sexual assault in college was incurred by the heaviest drinkers with the greatest frequencies of adolescent sexual assault. This study highlights the importance of considering past victimization history in concert with alcohol consumption in efforts to prevent sexual victimization in college.

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Ethnic Identity, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Consequences Among Alaska Native and Non-Native College Students

Cited by 19 publications

References 48 publications

Association of belief in the “firewater myth” with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink.

Association of belief in the “firewater myth” with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink.

Depression and alcohol use in American Indian adolescents: The influence of family factors

Alcohol Consumption, History of Sexual Assault in Adolescence, and Revictimization in a Sample of University Students in the Western United States

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