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Self-schema as a non-drinker: a protective resource against heavy drinking in Mexican-American college women.
- Source :
- Health Promotion International; Aug2018, Vol. 33 Issue 4, p676-685, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Alcohol use is considered less acceptable for women than men in the Mexican culture. However, recent studies of Mexican-American (MA) women show that prevalence and rates of alcohol use are escalating, particularly in those with high acculturation to Western standards. Building on recent studies that demonstrated that drinking-related identities (self-schemas) are important predictors of alcohol use in college populations, this secondary data analysis investigated the association between acculturation, MA cultural values, and acculturative stress, drinking-related self-schemas and heavy drinking over time in college-enrolled MA women. Data were drawn from a 12-month longitudinal study of self-schemas and health-risk behaviors in 477 college-enrolled MA women. Drinking-related self-schemas, acculturation, MA cultural values and acculturative stress were measured at baseline, and heavy drinking was measured at baseline, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Thirty-six percent of women had a non-drinker self-schema but only 3% had a drinker self-schema. Higher spirituality was protective against heavy drinking, and this effect can be partially explained by presence of a non-drinker self-schema. Interventions that emphasize the personal relevance of being a non-drinker and support the importance of spirituality may help to prevent heavy drinking in MA college women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RISK-taking behavior
COLLEGE students
CULTURE
STATISTICS
ALCOHOLISM
SPIRITUALITY
ANALYSIS of variance
ACCULTURATION
T-test (Statistics)
HEALTH behavior
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
QUESTIONNAIRES
CHI-squared test
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
DATA analysis software
MAXIMUM likelihood statistics
DATA analysis
ALCOHOL drinking in college
SECONDARY analysis
LONGITUDINAL method
PROBABILITY theory
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09574824
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Promotion International
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131878406
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dax013