Friends, Family, and Alcohol Abuse: An Examination of General and Alcohol‐Specific Social Support

Groh, David R.; Jason, Leonard A.; Davis, Margaret I.; Olson, Bradley D.; Ferrari, Joseph R.

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“…These affirming and supportive environments may produce high cultural identities with little variability across students, thereby obscuring their impact on alcohol use (Venegas et al, 2012). Furthermore, a more supportive environment may serve as a protective factor with respect to alcohol use in general, which is consistent with the extant literature on the role of social support and drinking behaviors (Groh, Jason, Davis, Olson, & Ferrari, 2007; Menagi, Harrell, & June, 2008; Turner-Musa & Lipscomb, 2007). …”

Section: Beyond Acculturation: Understanding Perceptions Of Cultural supporting

confidence: 86%

Alcohol Use Severity Among Hispanic Emerging Adults in Higher Education: Understanding the Effect of Cultural Congruity

Cano

Vaughan

Dios

et al. 2015

Substance Use & Misuse

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Background Identifying and understanding determinants of alcohol use behavior among Hispanic college students is an increasingly important public health issue, particularly during emerging adulthood. Studies examining ethnocultural determinants of alcohol use behavior among Hispanic college students have focused on direct associations with cultural orientation (e.g., acculturation and enculturation); yet there is a need for research that accounts for the complex interplay of other culturally relevant sociocultural factors. Objectives This study examined associations of behavioral acculturation, behavioral enculturation, and cultural congruity (perception of cultural fit between the values of the academic environment and the student's personal values) with alcohol use severity (AUS); and tested if gender moderated those associations. Methods A hierarchical linear regression and moderation analysis were conducted on a sample of 167 Hispanic emerging adults (ages 18 to 25) enrolled in college. Results All predictor variables entered in the regression model accounted for 20.9% of the variance in AUS. After controlling for demographic variables and depressive symptoms, behavioral acculturation and enculturation did not have a statistically significant association with AUS. Further, gender did not moderate either of these associations. Conversely, greater cultural congruity was associated with lower reports of AUS. A moderation analysis suggested that cultural congruity predicted lower reports of AUS among men, but not among women. Conclusions This was the first known study to examine the association of cultural congruity with alcohol use. Findings highlight the value of examining contextual factors of culture and moving beyond reductive measures of cultural orientation.

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Section: Beyond Acculturation: Understanding Perceptions Of Cultural supporting

confidence: 86%

Alcohol Use Severity Among Hispanic Emerging Adults in Higher Education: Understanding the Effect of Cultural Congruity

Cano

Vaughan

Dios

et al. 2015

Substance Use & Misuse

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“…Yet to be undertaken are analyses of the inter-relationship of other social network variables, network structural variables such as network composition to drinking and how network composition relates to alcoholspecifi c support. Network composition measures have received considerable attention in the fi eld (e.g., Barrera et al, 1993;Beattie et al, 1992;Groh et al, 2007b;Havassy et al, 1991;Mason and Windle, 2001;Mohr et al, 2001;Wills et al,1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

Network Support as a Prognostic Indicator of Drinking Outcomes: The COMBINE Study

Longabaugh

Wirtz²,

Zywiak³

et al. 2010

J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs

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ABSTRACT. Objective: To increase understanding of the interrelationship between a patient's social network and patient drinking, the Important People and Activities (IPA) instrument was developed. To meet the aims of the COMBINE (Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions) Study, the IPA was modifi ed to create the Important People Inventory (IPI), which was used to measure the contextual infl uence of the patient's social network on patient outcomes and treatment effects. The aims of the present article were to describe the IPI and its differences from the IPA and to test the relationship of network support as measured by the IPI in predicting drinking during and following treatment. Method: Alcohol-dependent patients (N = 1,373) seeking outpatient treatment in the COMBINE randomized clinical trial were administered the IPI before treatment. Six network constructs were tested for predicting patient drinking. Results: As unique effects, alcohol-specifi c support, as measured by network drinking and opposition to patient drinking, is predictive of patient abstinent days during and following treatment and heavy drinking days following treatment. Other measures of network support have variable relationships to patient drinking at different phases: Some are predictive of patient drinking during treatment but diminish, whereas others are unrelated to drinking during treatment but become increasingly predictive of drinking as time from treatment increases. Conclusions: The IPI is a useful instrument for describing network support of alcohol-use disorder patients entering treatment. Measures of alcohol-specifi c support are prognostic of drinking outcomes. The patient's network support should be systematically assessed prior to tailored treatment planning. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs, 71, 837-846, 2010)

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“…Both general and abstinencespecific social support influence recovery outcomes, but abstinence-specific support is most critical to long-term recovery (Beattie & Longabaugh, 1999;Groh, Jason, Davis, Olson, & Farrari, 2007). The risk of relapse following treatment rises in relationship to the density of heavy drinkers in one's posttreatment social network and declines in tandem with social network support for abstinence (Bond, Kaskutas, & Weisner, 2003;Dennis, Foss, & Scott, 2007;Mohr, Averna, Kenny, & Del Boca, 2001;Weisner et al, 2003).…”

Section: Cultures Of Addiction and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

The mobilization of community resources to support long-term addiction recovery

White

2009

Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment

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Friends, Family, and Alcohol Abuse: An Examination of General and Alcohol‐Specific Social Support

Abstract: Social support may be considered from several different dimensions.

Cited by 99 publications

References 41 publications

Alcohol Use Severity Among Hispanic Emerging Adults in Higher Education: Understanding the Effect of Cultural Congruity

Alcohol Use Severity Among Hispanic Emerging Adults in Higher Education: Understanding the Effect of Cultural Congruity

Network Support as a Prognostic Indicator of Drinking Outcomes: The COMBINE Study

The mobilization of community resources to support long-term addiction recovery

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