Effects of parental alcoholism and life stress on hispanic and non-hispanic caucasian adelescents: A prospective study |
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Authors: | Manuel Barrera Jr Susan A Li Laurie Chassin |
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Institution: | (1) Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Box 871104, 85287-1104 Tempe, Arizona |
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Abstract: | Investigated ethnicity and parental alcoholism as factors that might influence the stress vulnerability of adolescents. It
extended an initial cross-sectional study of this same sample by adding two annual assessments which allowed for additional
cross-sectional analyses and longitudinal tests. Hispanic and Caucasian adolescents (N=306 at Time 1) completed measures of their own life stress, family conflict, and alcohol use. Their parents reported on adolescents'
internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Cross-sectional analyses at Time 2, and prospective analyses involving Time 1 and
Time 2 measures were, for the most part, consistent with the original study's results. Caucasian adolescents and children
of alcoholic parents appeared to be more vulnerable to stress than Hispanic adolescents and children of nonalcoholic parents.
Family conflict was a partial explanation for this increased vulnerability.
This research was supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant DA05227 to Laurie Chassin (pricipal investigator) and
Manuel Barrera, Jr. (coprincipal investigator). Susan Li was supported by an American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship
Award. Portions of this research were presented at the conference, “Resiliency in Families: Racial and Ethnic Minority Families
in America” that was held at the University of Wisconsin, May 31–June 2, 1994. |
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Keywords: | adolescents Hispanics parental alcoholism stress |
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