Abstract
This research assesses the effects of adaptive/ maladaptive gender roles and acculturation in predicting substance use in a 2007 sample of 1466 Mexican American seventh-grade adolescents from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Multiple regression analyses found significant effects for both adaptive and maladaptive gender roles, as well as several gender-specific interactions between gender roles and linguistic acculturation that predicted substance use. Limitations of the research are noted, as well as implications for understanding the impact of acculturation on how gender roles differentially affect substance use in Mexican American boys versus girls.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 214-229 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Substance Use and Misuse |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2012 |
Keywords
- Acculturation
- Gender
- Gender roles
- Mexican American adolescents
- Substance use
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Health(social science)
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Psychiatry and Mental health