Latino Adolescent Substance Use in the United States: Using the Bioecodevelopmental Model as an Organizing Framework for Research and Practice

Cox, Ronald B.; Burr, Brandon K.; Blow, Adrian J.; Cardona, José Rubén Parra

doi:10.1111/j.1756-2589.2011.00086.x

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“…Consistent with calls from other researchers, additional studies are needed to understand the particular socio-environmental factors that influence immigrant youths’ adoption of risk behaviors such as substance use upon arrival in the US (Kulis et al, 2007; Frank, 2010; Frank, 2007). Results of this study point to the continued importance of considering the effects of gender, the socio-cultural environment and the unique experience of the audience in designing effective preventive intervention programs for substance use among youth (Cox et al, 2011). …”

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Substance use, generation and time in the United States: The modifying role of gender for immigrant urban adolescents

Almeida

Johnson

Matsumoto

et al. 2012

Social Science & Medicine

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Although immigrant youth have lower rates of substance use than US born youth, whether substance use varies by generation and time in the US is unclear. This study examines adolescent alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use by generation/time in US (i.e., first generation, in US ≤4 years; first generation, in US >4 years; second generation; and third generation or higher). Data come from a 2008 survey of Boston, Massachusetts public high school students (n=1,485). Multivariable logistic regression models were used to examine the association between generation/time in the US and risk of past 30-day substance use, adjusting for age and race/ethnicity. To determine whether the associations differed by gender, we fit gender stratified regression models. The prevalence of substance use was lowest among immigrants who had been in the US ≤4 years. Among girls, generation/time in US was not related to alcohol use or to tobacco use. For boys, being an immigrant regardless of number of years in the US, as well as second generation was associated with a significantly lower risk of tobacco use, compared to third generation youth. Additionally, immigrant boys who had been in the US ≤4 years had a significantly lower risk of alcohol use. Among both boys and girls, all first and second generation youth were significantly less likely to report marijuana use compared to third generation youth. Immigrant youth have a lower risk of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use relative to US born youth; however the protective effect of foreign nativity on alcohol was eroded much more quickly than for tobacco or marijuana. The effects of generation and time in US on substance use differ by gender and the particular substance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Substance use, generation and time in the United States: The modifying role of gender for immigrant urban adolescents

Almeida

Johnson

Matsumoto

et al. 2012

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Various mechanisms have been identified that might explain the manner in which greater acculturation is related to increased substance use [6, 7, 27]. Among these, discrimination has been identified as a construct that might function to explain part of the relationship between acculturation and substance use [12, 28].…”

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Profiles of acculturation among Hispanics in the United States: links with discrimination and substance use

Salas-Wright

Clark

Vaughn

et al. 2014

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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Purpose Recent research suggests that acculturation is a multifaceted construct with implications for substance use among Hispanics. However, few, if any, studies examining profiles of acculturation have been conducted using national samples. Moreover, no cluster-based studies have examined how acculturation relates to discrimination and substance use disorders among Hispanics in the United States. Methods The present study, employing Wave 2 data on Hispanics (n = 6,359) from the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions, aims to address these gaps. We use latent profile analysis to identify profiles of acculturation among Hispanics in the United States and, in turn, examine the relationships between membership in these profiles and experiences of discrimination and the prevalence of substance use disorders. Results A five-class solution was the optimal modeling of the data. Classes were identified as Class 1: Spanish-dominant/strongly separated (17 %), Class 2: Spanish-dominant/separated (18 %), Class 3: bilingual/bicultural (33 %), Class 4: English-dominant/bicultural (16 %), and Class 5: English-dominant/assimilated (16 %). Bilingual/bicultural Hispanics (Class 3) reported the highest prevalence of discrimination (31 %). Spanish-language dominant Hispanics (Classes 1 and 2) reported the lowest prevalence of substance use disorders. Significant differences in the prevalence of substance use disorders were observed between the bilingual/bicultural (Class 3) and English-dominant/assimilated classes (Class 5), but no differences were noted between the two English-dominant classes (Classes 4 and 5). Conclusions Study findings indicate that acculturation is heterogeneous in its expression among Hispanics and suggest that Hispanics who maintain their Spanish-language capacity are at a substantially lower risk for a variety of substance use disorders.

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“…Although drinking is an individual behavior, forces, such as drinking norms, that exist across levels of social organization-from the family through peer groups, schools, regional and ethnic subcultures, and larger cultural contexts-may influence adolescent drinking (Cox et al, 2011). The question is how readily these drinking norms cross cultural boundaries.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Both social learning and social contagion, as well as cultural norms that differ across ethnicities and many other factors, probably affect drinking levels (Cox et al, 2011;Wallace & Muroff, 2001). What the results mean, however, is that one cannot assume that the factors relevant to drinking behaviors, including but not limited to exposure to Whites, exhibit the same patterns across racial and ethnic groups.…”

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Predicting High School Minority Adolescents’ Drinking from Their Exposure to White Schoolmates: Differences and Similarities among Hispanic, Black, and Asian U.S. Adolescents

Cleveland

Wiebe

McGuire

et al. 2015

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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White students' drinking may constitute a risk factor for drinking among same-school minority adolescents. Our study examined data from 14,986 ethnic minority American high school students (56% female, mean age = 15.6). Models examined associations between school-level White student drinking and same-school Black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents' drinking, as well as whether schools' proportions of White students and friendships with White schoolmates moderated these associations. Both school-level White students' drinking and minority students' friendships with White schoolmates were associated with levels of minority student drinking. But these associations were dependent upon levels of other study variables. In particular, there were higher associations between school-level risk factors and minorities' drinking when minority adolescents had high proportions of Whites among their friends.

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Latino Adolescent Substance Use in the United States: Using the Bioecodevelopmental Model as an Organizing Framework for Research and Practice

Cited by 16 publications

References 186 publications

Substance use, generation and time in the United States: The modifying role of gender for immigrant urban adolescents

Substance use, generation and time in the United States: The modifying role of gender for immigrant urban adolescents

Profiles of acculturation among Hispanics in the United States: links with discrimination and substance use

Predicting High School Minority Adolescents’ Drinking from Their Exposure to White Schoolmates: Differences and Similarities among Hispanic, Black, and Asian U.S. Adolescents

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