TY - JOUR
T1 - Pregaming among Latina/o emerging adults
T2 - Do acculturation and gender matter?
AU - Perrotte, Jessica K.
AU - Zamboanga, Byron L.
AU - Lui, P. Priscilla
AU - Piña-Watson, Brandy
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number F31AA026477. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2019/10/2
Y1 - 2019/10/2
N2 - Among ethnic minority groups, Latina/o emerging adults are most likely to engage in pregaming, a risky drinking practice. This study examined how U.S. acculturation and enculturation are associated with pregaming and the extent to which gender moderates this relation in a sample of 312 Latina/o emerging adults (18–25 years of age). Results indicated that men consumed more alcohol when pregaming than women, but there were no gender differences in pregaming frequency. Results also showed that lower levels of U.S. acculturation were associated with greater alcohol consumption while pregaming for men, but not women. Gender did not moderate the association between acculturation and pregaming frequency. This study highlights the need to account for gender when examining sociocultural determinants of high risk drinking behaviors such as pregaming among Latina/o emerging adults.
AB - Among ethnic minority groups, Latina/o emerging adults are most likely to engage in pregaming, a risky drinking practice. This study examined how U.S. acculturation and enculturation are associated with pregaming and the extent to which gender moderates this relation in a sample of 312 Latina/o emerging adults (18–25 years of age). Results indicated that men consumed more alcohol when pregaming than women, but there were no gender differences in pregaming frequency. Results also showed that lower levels of U.S. acculturation were associated with greater alcohol consumption while pregaming for men, but not women. Gender did not moderate the association between acculturation and pregaming frequency. This study highlights the need to account for gender when examining sociocultural determinants of high risk drinking behaviors such as pregaming among Latina/o emerging adults.
KW - Acculturation/enculturation
KW - Hispanic
KW - Latina/o
KW - alcohol
KW - emerging adult
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040991991&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15332640.2017.1417187
DO - 10.1080/15332640.2017.1417187
M3 - Article
C2 - 29364789
AN - SCOPUS:85040991991
SN - 1533-2640
VL - 18
SP - 530
EP - 548
JO - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
IS - 4
ER -