Herd D
School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.
J Subst Abuse. 1997;9:137-49. doi: 10.1016/s0899-3289(97)90012-2.
This study explored whether norms regarding women's drinking were more or less liberal among African American than among Caucasian women, and whether female-specific drinking norms influence drinking rates and drinking problems among the two groups of women. The study is based on data from a 1984 national survey of subsamples of 1,224 African American and 1,034 Caucasian women. Logistic and multiple regression analyses showed that African Americans reported more conservative drinking norms for women than Caucasians even when controlling for general drinking norms and social characteristics. Other findings were that female-specific drinking norms affect the proportion of women drinkers, usual quantity of alcohol consumption, and symptoms of alcohol dependence. African American and Caucasian women were not found to differ in the effect of female-specific drinking norms on alcohol use or on alcohol-related problems. Future research should explore differences in cultural factors that may affect attitudes towards women's drinking as well as more detailed aspects of the relationship between women's drinking norms and problem drinking.
本研究探讨了非裔美国女性与白人女性相比，关于女性饮酒的规范是更宽松还是更保守，以及特定于女性的饮酒规范是否会影响这两组女性的饮酒率和饮酒问题。该研究基于1984年对1224名非裔美国女性和1034名白人女性子样本进行的全国性调查数据。逻辑回归和多元回归分析表明，即使在控制了一般饮酒规范和社会特征后，非裔美国人报告的女性饮酒规范比白人更为保守。其他研究结果是，特定于女性的饮酒规范会影响女性饮酒者的比例、通常的酒精消费量以及酒精依赖症状。未发现非裔美国女性和白人女性在特定于女性的饮酒规范对酒精使用或与酒精相关问题的影响方面存在差异。未来的研究应探讨可能影响对女性饮酒态度的文化因素差异，以及女性饮酒规范与问题饮酒之间关系的更详细方面。
