Acculturative stress as a moderator for international student drinking behaviors and alcohol use consequences. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hunt, Elizabeth N.; Martens, Matthew P.; Wang, Kenneth T.; Yan, Grace C.
• Is Part Of: Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse. Volume 16:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 275
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Acculturative stress -- alcohol use -- alcohol use consequences -- international students; Substance abuse -- Periodicals; Minorities -- Substance use -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- Periodicals; Substance abuse -- United States -- Periodicals; Minorities -- Substance use -- United States -- Periodicals; Ethnicity -- United States -- Periodicals; Substance-Related Disorders -- ethnology -- Periodicals; 362.29089
• DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2016.1185656
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1533-2640

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Drinking behaviors and alcohol use consequences can have a major effect on well-being in college student populations. Little research has addressed how the unique acculturative stress experiences of international students may affect their alcohol use and consequences. This study examined acculturative stress as a moderator of the relationship between international student drinking behaviors and alcohol use consequences. Data were collected from 175 international students and analyzed using hierarchal regression analysis to assess the moderating effect of acculturative stress. Acculturative stress moderated the relationship between alcohol use and related consequences such that the relationship was stronger among those with higher levels of acculturative stress. Efforts to alleviate acculturative stress experiences of this population may help decrease alcohol use consequences.