Stern Meslissa K, Wiens Brenda A
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0165, USA.
J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2009;8(1):54-69. doi: 10.1080/15332640802683417.
The current study identified ethnic differences in beliefs about substance use and assessed their impact on frequency of use of various substances. Participants were 1,398 Caucasian and African-American rural secondary school students. Only tobacco or cigarettes had significant differences for both cognitive and frequency of use variables. Results revealed that Caucasian students reported higher past 12-month tobacco use compared to African-American students. Congruently, African-American students reported perceiving significantly greater wrongness in tobacco use. In contrast, Caucasian students had a significantly greater perception of harm of tobacco use compared to African-American students. When these cognitive variables were entered as mediators of the ethnicity-cigarette use relationship, only the attitude of wrongness variable served as a significant partial mediator. These data highlight the importance of addressing attitudes as part of substance use prevention.
当前的研究确定了关于物质使用的信念中的种族差异，并评估了这些差异对各种物质使用频率的影响。研究参与者为1398名白人和非裔美国农村中学生。只有烟草或香烟在认知和使用频率变量上存在显著差异。结果显示，与非裔美国学生相比，白人学生报告的过去12个月烟草使用率更高。同样，非裔美国学生报告称，他们认为吸烟的错误程度明显更高。相比之下，与非裔美国学生相比，白人学生对吸烟危害的认知明显更高。当将这些认知变量作为种族与香烟使用关系的中介变量纳入分析时，只有错误态度变量起到了显著的部分中介作用。这些数据凸显了将态度作为物质使用预防一部分加以解决的重要性。
