Less drinking, yet more problems: understanding African American drinking and related problems.
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- Zapolski, Tamika C B; Pedersen, Sarah L; McCarthy, Denis M; Smith, Gregory T
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- 2014
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- Psychological bulletin
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- 23477449
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- 10.1037/a0032113
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- PMC3758406
Researchers have found that, compared to European Americans, African Americans report later initiation of drinking, lower rates of use, and lower levels of use across almost all age groups. Nevertheless, African Americans also have higher levels of alcohol problems than European Americans. After reviewing current data regarding these trends, we provide a theory to understand this apparent paradox as well as to understand variability in risk among African Americans. Certain factors appear to operate as both protective factors against heavy use and risk factors for negative consequences from use. For example, African American culture is characterized by norms against heavy alcohol use or intoxication, which protects against heavy use but also provides within-group social disapproval when use does occur. African Americans are more likely to encounter legal problems from drinking than European Americans, even at the same levels of consumption, perhaps thus resulting in reduced consumption but more problems from consumption. There appears to be one particular group of African Americans, low-income African American men, who are at the highest risk for alcoholism and related problems. We theorize that this effect is due to the complex interaction of residential discrimination, racism, age of drinking, and lack of available standard life reinforcers (e.g., stable employment and financial stability). Further empirical research will be needed to test our theories and otherwise move this important field forward. A focus on within-group variation in drinking patterns and problems is necessary. We suggest several new avenues of inquiry.
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| 60 | Explanations for Greater Negative Social Consequences of Alcohol Use among African Americans Compared to European Americans — Summary | Up to this point, we have reviewed the literature examining group differences in drinking patterns.… |
| 61 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans | African Americans vary in their risk for problem drinking as a function of genetic vulnerability,… |
| 62 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Learning and Motives | Another set of factors that can influence risk for alcoholism are those related to psychosocial… |
| 63 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Learning and Motives | European Americans (Flory, Lynam, Milich, Leukefeld, & Clayton, 2004; McCarthy, Miller, Smith, &… |
| 64 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Learning and Motives | A construct related to alcohol expectancies is that of motives for drinking: most researchers… |
| 65 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Family factors and alcohol use | There is evidence that family composition can play an important role in alcohol initiation and use… |
| 66 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Family factors and alcohol use | drink heavily, African American youth are significantly more likely than their European American… |
| 67 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Family factors and alcohol use | Another factor is exposure to violence in the home. For example, Bossarte and Swahn (2008) reported… |
| 68 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Family factors and alcohol use | Parental substance use behaviors can also affect age of initiation and level of use among… |
| 69 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Peer group | In general, the extent to which an adolescent’s peers engage in deviant behavior and substance use… |
| 70 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Peer group | likely to drink than those whose peers did not drink; those who reported that most of their peers… |
| 71 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Ethnic identity | Ethnic identity, defined variously as self-identification with one’s ethnic group; the sense of… |
| 72 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Ethnic identity | Ethnic identity has also been identified as a buffer against substance use by mitigating the effects… |
| 73 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Africentric world view | Holding strong Africentric world views (e.g., values, beliefs, behaviors, and consciousness deriving… |
| 74 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Africentric world view | African Americans who hold stronger Africentric world views are less likely to use alcohol (Brook &… |
| 75 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Religiosity | Holding religious beliefs appears to provide additional protection, helping to identify those… |
| 76 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Environmental Risk Factors — Religiosity | Religious participation does also appear to be stronger among women (Barna, 2010), particularly… |
| 77 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Demographic Variables — Sex | When comparing drinking levels among African Americans, African American women are consistently… |
| 78 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Demographic Variables — Sex and income | It has been suggested that across race, income is positively associated with alcohol consumption… |
| 79 | Explaining Individual Differences in Risk among African Americans — Demographic Variables — Sex and income | Not only does this subset of severely impoverished African American men appear to drink more than… |
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| Racial Discrimination, Protective Parenting, and Binge Drinking Among Emerging Adult Black Men. | Kogan SM et al. | — | 2020 | → |
| Racial/ethnic differences in the time-varying association between alcohol expectancies and drinking during the transition from childhood to adolescence. | Banks DE et al. | — | 2020 | → |
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| Refining Psychological, Substance Use, and Sociodemographic Predictors of Suicide Ideation and Attempts in a National Multiethnic Sample of Adults, 2008-2013. | Cheref S et al. | — | 2019 | → |
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| Temporal Dynamics of Transdermal Alcohol Concentration Measured via New-Generation Wrist-Worn Biosensor. | Fairbairn CE et al. | — | 2019 | → |
| The association between racial and socioeconomic discrimination and two stages of alcohol use in blacks. | Haeny AM et al. | — | 2019 | → |
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| The Efficacy of an Event-Specific, Text Message, Personalized Drinking Feedback Intervention. | Cadigan JM et al. | — | 2019 | → |
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| A Review of Hip Hop-Based Interventions for Health Literacy, Health Behaviors, and Mental Health. | Robinson C et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Assessment of culture and environment in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study: Rationale, description of measures, and early data. | Zucker RA et al. | — | 2018 | → |
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| Do Parent-Adolescent Discrepancies Predict Deviant Peer Affiliation and Subsequent Substance Use? | Kliewer W et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Elevated inflammation in association with alcohol abuse among Blacks but not Whites: results from the MIDUS biomarker study. | Ransome Y et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Group Psychotherapy in Specialty Clinics for Substance Use Disorder Treatment:The Challenge of Ethnoracially Diverse Clients. | Wendt DC et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Longitudinal Associations Between Alcohol-Related Cognitions and Use in African American and European American Adolescent Girls. | Foster DW et al. | — | 2018 | → |
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| Racial/ethnic differences in the association between alcohol use and mortality among men living with HIV. | Bensley KM et al. | — | 2018 | → |
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| Drinking Patterns and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex Within Los Angeles County. | Washington TA et al. | — | 2017 | → |
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