Lipton R
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Tromso, Norway.
Behav Med. 1997 Fall;23(3):101-11. doi: 10.1080/08964289709596366.
The effect of alcohol use on the relationship between stress and depression in US-born Mexican American men, Mexican Americans born in Mexico, and non-Hispanic Whites born in the United States was examined in a sample obtained from the Los Angeles Epidemiological Catchment Area study. Chronic stress, measured by financial strain, and acute stress, measured by negative life events, were included in the analysis. Alcohol use was measured through a combination of frequency, quantity, and binging behavior. Non-Hispanic Whites were found to have a U-shaped relationship in which moderate drinkers, in the presence of stress, had lower levels of depression than did heavy drinkers and abstainers. No such U-shaped relationship for Mexican Americans born in the United States was indicated. Mexican Americans born in Mexico had a more J-shaped relationship, with abstainers through moderate drinkers having lower mean depression scores than did heavy drinkers.
在美国出生的墨西哥裔美国男性、出生于墨西哥的墨西哥裔美国人以及在美国出生的非西班牙裔白人中，酒精使用对压力与抑郁之间关系的影响，在一项取自洛杉矶流行病学集水区研究的样本中进行了检验。分析中纳入了以经济压力衡量的慢性压力以及以负面生活事件衡量的急性压力。酒精使用通过频率、数量和暴饮行为的综合指标来衡量。研究发现，非西班牙裔白人呈现出一种U型关系，即在有压力的情况下，适度饮酒者的抑郁水平低于重度饮酒者和戒酒者。在美国出生的墨西哥裔美国人未显示出这种U型关系。出生于墨西哥的墨西哥裔美国人呈现出一种更为J型的关系，从戒酒者到适度饮酒者的平均抑郁得分低于重度饮酒者。
