Golding J M, Burnam M A, Wells K B
Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Alcohol Alcohol. 1990;25(4):421-32.
Alcohol use is associated with depressive symptoms in several studies. Using data from a community survey, this study examined whether this relationship (a) can be accounted for by ethnic or sociodemographic differences among persons who engage in various levels of alcohol use; and (b) differs for Mexican Americans (N = 1244) and non-Hispanic Whites (N = 1149). Using large quantities of alcohol, and, among men, daily drinking, were associated with depressed mood. These associations were similar for Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic Whites, and associations of quantity and frequency with depression were independent of each other. Among women, the cultural and demographic characteristics of high-quantity drinkers and abstainers (both of whom tended to be Mexican Americans) accounted for the association of alcohol use with depression. Among men, there was some suggestion that unemployment and unmarried status mediated the association of alcohol quantity with depression. People who drank greater quantities of alcohol per occasion reported more somatic depressive symptoms, and more frequent male drinkers reported more of most types of depressive symptoms.
多项研究表明饮酒与抑郁症状有关。本研究利用一项社区调查的数据，探讨了这种关系：（a）是否可以用不同饮酒水平人群的种族或社会人口学差异来解释；（b）对于墨西哥裔美国人（N = 1244）和非西班牙裔白人（N = 1149）是否有所不同。大量饮酒以及男性每日饮酒与情绪低落有关。墨西哥裔美国人和非西班牙裔白人的这些关联相似，饮酒量和饮酒频率与抑郁的关联相互独立。在女性中，大量饮酒者和戒酒者（两者往往是墨西哥裔美国人）的文化和人口学特征解释了饮酒与抑郁的关联。在男性中，有迹象表明失业和未婚状态介导了饮酒量与抑郁的关联。每次饮酒量较大的人报告有更多的躯体抑郁症状，饮酒更频繁的男性报告大多数类型的抑郁症状更多。
