University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, 3rd Floor Mail, Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States.
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, 2001 N. Soto Street, 3rd Floor Mail, Los Angeles, CA 90032, United States.
Addict Behav. 2018 Feb;77:267-271. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.07.018. Epub 2017 Jul 14.
Hispanic emerging adults are a priority population for substance use prevention, yet few studies have examined whether traditional Hispanic cultural values serve as risk or protective factors for substance use among emerging adults. This study examined the relationship between familism, respeto, fatalism, and substance use among Hispanic emerging adults.
Participants (ages 18 to 25) completed surveys indicating identification with familism, respeto, and fatalism, past month use of tobacco, marijuana, hard drugs and binge drinking. Separate logistic regression models examined the association between cultural values and each substance use outcome, controlling for acculturation, age and gender.
Among participants (n=1445, mean age=23, 60% female), 21% reported past month cigarette use, 18% reported past month alternative tobacco product (ATP) use, 25% reported past month marijuana use, 44% reported past month binge drinking, and 7% reported past month hard drug use. Higher fatalism scores were associated with increased ATP use. Higher familism scores were associated with binge drinking, while higher respeto scores were associated with decreased binge drinking, marijuana, and hard drug use.
These findings suggest that substance use prevention and intervention programs should emphasize how substance use interferes with caring and honoring parents (respeto) and family cohesion and functioning (familism). Programs that highlight these cultural values and beliefs may be beneficial for Hispanic emerging adults and members of other collectivistic cultures.
西班牙裔成年初显期人群是物质使用预防的重点人群，但很少有研究探讨传统的西班牙裔文化价值观是否是成年初显期人群物质使用的风险或保护因素。本研究检验了家庭主义、尊重、宿命论与西班牙裔成年初显期人群物质使用之间的关系。
参与者（年龄在 18 至 25 岁之间）完成了表明对家庭主义、尊重和宿命论的认同，过去一个月吸烟、使用大麻、吸食硬毒品和 binge drinking 的调查。分别进行逻辑回归模型检验文化价值观与每种物质使用结果之间的关系，控制了文化适应、年龄和性别。
在参与者中（n=1445，平均年龄 23 岁，60%为女性），21%报告过去一个月吸烟，18%报告过去一个月使用替代烟草产品（ATP），25%报告过去一个月使用大麻，44%报告过去一个月 binge drinking，7%报告过去一个月吸食硬毒品。更高的宿命论分数与 ATP 使用增加有关。更高的家庭主义分数与 binge drinking 有关，而更高的尊重分数与 binge drinking、大麻和硬毒品使用减少有关。
这些发现表明，物质使用预防和干预计划应强调物质使用如何干扰对父母的关爱和尊重（尊重）以及家庭凝聚力和功能（家庭主义）。强调这些文化价值观和信念的计划可能对西班牙裔成年初显期人群和其他集体主义文化的成员有益。
