Cano Miguel Ángel, Vaughan Ellen L, de Dios Marcel A, Castro Yessenia, Roncancio Angelica M, Ojeda Lizette
a Department of Epidemiology , Florida International University , Miami , Florida , USA.
b School of Education , Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana , USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2015;50(11):1412-20. doi: 10.3109/10826084.2015.1018538.
Identifying and understanding determinants of alcohol use behavior among Hispanic college students is an increasingly important public health issue, particularly during emerging adulthood. Studies examining ethnocultural determinants of alcohol use behavior among Hispanic college students have focused on direct associations with cultural orientation (e.g., acculturation and enculturation); yet there is a need for research that accounts for the complex interplay of other culturally relevant sociocultural factors.
This study examined associations of behavioral acculturation, behavioral enculturation, and cultural congruity (perception of cultural fit between the values of the academic environment and the student's personal values) with alcohol use severity (AUS); and tested if gender moderated those associations.
A hierarchical linear regression and moderation analysis were conducted on a sample of 167 Hispanic emerging adults (ages 18-25) enrolled in college.
All predictor variables entered in the regression model accounted for 20.9% of the variance in AUS. After controlling for demographic variables and depressive symptoms, behavioral acculturation and enculturation did not have a statistically significant association with AUS. Further, gender did not moderate either of these associations. Conversely, greater cultural congruity was associated with lower reports of AUS. A moderation analysis suggested that cultural congruity predicted lower reports of AUS among men, but not among women.
This was the first known study to examine the association of cultural congruity with alcohol use. Findings highlight the value of examining contextual factors of culture and moving beyond reductive measures of cultural orientation.
识别和理解西班牙裔大学生饮酒行为的决定因素是一个日益重要的公共卫生问题，在成年初期尤为如此。研究西班牙裔大学生饮酒行为的民族文化决定因素的研究主要集中在与文化取向的直接关联上（例如，文化适应和文化传承）；然而，需要开展研究以考虑其他与文化相关的社会文化因素的复杂相互作用。
本研究考察了行为文化适应、行为文化传承和文化一致性（对学术环境价值观与学生个人价值观之间文化契合度的感知）与饮酒严重程度（AUS）之间的关联；并检验了性别是否调节了这些关联。
对167名就读于大学的西班牙裔成年初期学生（年龄在18至25岁之间）进行分层线性回归和调节分析。
回归模型中纳入的所有预测变量解释了AUS方差的20.9%。在控制了人口统计学变量和抑郁症状后，行为文化适应和文化传承与AUS没有统计学上的显著关联。此外，性别并未调节这些关联中的任何一个。相反，更高的文化一致性与更低的AUS报告相关。调节分析表明，文化一致性预测男性的AUS报告较低，但女性并非如此。
这是已知的第一项研究文化一致性与饮酒之间关联的研究。研究结果凸显了考察文化背景因素以及超越文化取向简化测量方法的价值。
