Acculturation and Alcohol Use Among Hispanic and Asian American College Students

Many college students, are susceptible to alcohol use and related problems, including Hispanic and Asian Americans. A potential factor contributing to this risk is acculturation, which can be defined as the process of psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural change and adaptation that occurs when individuals or groups from different cultural backgrounds come in contact. This chapter provides a narrative review of the literature examining acculturation and alcohol use among these populations. One key theme to emerge from this review is that the exact direction of the association between these variables is unclear and therefore should be considered with caution. While the existing evidence is relatively limited, gender and, to some extent, ethnic group membership appear to moderate the association between acculturation and alcohol use. Several methodological issues pertaining to the study of acculturation, future research directions, and implications for intervention and prevention are discussed.

Acculturation · Adaptation (eye) · Asian americans · Association (psychology) · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Intervention (counseling) · Narrative · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Anthropology · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology · Gerontology

• Acculturation profiles and alcohol use among Hispanic Americans

  Savannah Pham, P Priscilla Lui•Journal of Ethnicity in Substance…•2019

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