Izuno T, Miyakawa M, Tsunoda T, Parrish K M, Kono H, Ogata M, Harford T C, Towle L H
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Int J Addict. 1992 Dec;27(12):1389-400. doi: 10.3109/10826089209047357.
Using population-based survey data, personal-problematic and socioproblematic factors were examined among Japanese in Japan, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, and Japanese-Americans; Caucasians in California were analyzed as a control group. Caucasian males were more likely to exhibit drinking-related social problems, whereas Japanese males showed more personal-problematic symptoms. Japanese-American men, both in Hawaii and California, were least likely among the three ethnic groups to have personal-problematic symptoms and were more likely to have socioproblematic symptoms than Japanese men. These differences might be explained by differences in the perception of social problems.
