Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology, University of Kentucky.
College of Social Work, University of Kentucky.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2021 May;35(3):320-325. doi: 10.1037/adb0000694. Epub 2021 Feb 8.
Research suggests African American men use cannabis to cope with racial discrimination. This conjecture may also be true for incarcerated African American men, who report high rates of cannabis use prior to and after incarceration. However, no studies to date have examined the association between race-related stress and chronic cannabis use among incarcerated African American men. As this population encounters pervasive negative cultural stereotypes and devaluation from larger society, cultural race-related stress may predict cannabis use among this population. Therefore, the purpose of this brief report was to examine the relationship between cultural race-related stress and years of regular cannabis use among a sample of incarcerated African American men.
Study staff completed interviews with N = 177 African American men nearing release from four prisons in Kentucky. The interviews focused on mental health, drug use, and HIV risk behaviors. Participants provided their demographics (e.g., age, years of education, and length of incarceration), self-reported their years of regular cannabis use (3 times or more per week), and completed the Brief Index of Race-Related Stress (IRRS-B; Utsey, Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development, 1999, 32, 149).
Multivariate regression analyses demonstrated cultural race-related stress was significant and positively associated with the number of years of regular cannabis use (p = .003) among this population.
This finding has implications for culturally tailored substance abuse treatment, specifically for cannabis use, with African American men upon their community re-entry from prison. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
研究表明，非裔美国男性会使用大麻来应对种族歧视。这种推测对于被监禁的非裔美国男性来说可能也是如此，他们报告在监禁前后大麻的使用率都很高。然而，迄今为止，没有研究检验与种族相关的压力与被监禁的非裔美国男性慢性大麻使用之间的关联。由于这一人群遭遇了来自社会更大范围的普遍负面文化刻板印象和贬低，因此与种族相关的文化压力可能预示着该人群的大麻使用。因此，本简要报告的目的是检验在一个接近从肯塔基州的四个监狱获释的非裔美国男性样本中，与种族相关的文化压力与定期使用大麻年限之间的关系。
研究人员对 177 名非裔美国男性进行了访谈，他们即将从肯塔基州的四个监狱获释。这些访谈重点关注心理健康、药物使用和 HIV 风险行为。参与者提供了他们的人口统计学信息（例如年龄、受教育年限和监禁时间），报告了他们定期使用大麻的年限（每周 3 次或以上），并完成了简短的种族相关压力量表（IRRS-B；Utsey，Measurement & Evaluation in Counseling & Development，1999，32，149）。
多元回归分析表明，在该人群中，与种族相关的文化压力与定期使用大麻的年限呈显著正相关（p =.003）。
这一发现对于针对从监狱重返社区的非裔美国男性的药物滥用治疗具有重要意义，特别是针对大麻使用的治疗。（PsycInfo Database Record（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
