TY - JOUR
T1 - Acculturation and parental attachment in Asian-American adolescents' alcohol use.
AU - Hahm, Hyeouk C.
AU - Lahiff, Maureen
AU - Guterman, Neil B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by a dissertation grant (Grant 1 RO3 MH64341-01, Primary investigator: H.C.H.) from the National Institute of Mental Health Office of AIDS Research and the Council on Social Work Education NIMH Minority Research Fellowship Program (#3-T32-MH-16089-20SI). We thank Drs. Steven Schinke, Ellen Lukens, Raymond Arons, and Meredith Hanson for reading and commenting on the manuscript. Add Health is a program designed by J. Richard Udry (primary investigator) and Peter Bearman and funded by Grant P01-HD31921 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with cooperative funding participation by the National Cancer Institute; National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; National Institute on Drug Abuse; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute of Nursing Research; Office of AIDS Research, NIH; Office of Behavior and Social Science Research, NIH; Office of the Director, NIH; Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH; Office of Population Affairs, DHHS; National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; Office of Minority Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DHHS; Office of Minority Health, Office of Public Health and Science, DHHS; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS; and the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - PURPOSE: To test whether the degree of acculturation predicts subsequent alcohol use among Asian-American adolescents, and to test the moderating effect of parental attachment. METHODS: This was a prospective study using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Adolescent Health data set. A nationally representative sample of 714 Asian-American boys (n = 332) and girls (n = 382) in grades 7-12 was analyzed. In-home self-report data were collected on two types of acculturation status, alcohol use, demographics, and parental attachment. After controlling for acculturation status and background variables at Wave I, logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the odds ratios to assess the association between acculturation and alcohol use at Wave II for adolescents. RESULTS: Asian-American adolescents with the highest level of acculturation (English use at home, born in the United States) were identified as the highest risk group. For adolescents with low parental attachment, the odds of alcohol use were 11 times greater in the highly acculturated group than in the least acculturated group. However, the odds of alcohol use for adolescents with moderate or high levels of parental attachment did not vary across acculturation groups. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, a greater level of acculturation was associated with greater alcohol use. However, when parental attachment was taken into account, highly acculturated adolescents with moderate or high parental attachment had no greater risk than adolescents with same levels of parental attachment who were less acculturated. Thus, it appears that acculturation per se was not a risk factor unless it was accompanied by a low level of parental attachment.
AB - PURPOSE: To test whether the degree of acculturation predicts subsequent alcohol use among Asian-American adolescents, and to test the moderating effect of parental attachment. METHODS: This was a prospective study using a subsample of the National Longitudinal Adolescent Health data set. A nationally representative sample of 714 Asian-American boys (n = 332) and girls (n = 382) in grades 7-12 was analyzed. In-home self-report data were collected on two types of acculturation status, alcohol use, demographics, and parental attachment. After controlling for acculturation status and background variables at Wave I, logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the odds ratios to assess the association between acculturation and alcohol use at Wave II for adolescents. RESULTS: Asian-American adolescents with the highest level of acculturation (English use at home, born in the United States) were identified as the highest risk group. For adolescents with low parental attachment, the odds of alcohol use were 11 times greater in the highly acculturated group than in the least acculturated group. However, the odds of alcohol use for adolescents with moderate or high levels of parental attachment did not vary across acculturation groups. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, a greater level of acculturation was associated with greater alcohol use. However, when parental attachment was taken into account, highly acculturated adolescents with moderate or high parental attachment had no greater risk than adolescents with same levels of parental attachment who were less acculturated. Thus, it appears that acculturation per se was not a risk factor unless it was accompanied by a low level of parental attachment.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1054-139X(03)00058-2
DO - 10.1016/S1054-139X(03)00058-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 12890603
AN - SCOPUS:0642367287
SN - 1054-139X
VL - 33
SP - 119
EP - 129
JO - The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
JF - The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
IS - 2
ER -