Stress and Coping as a Conceptual Framework for Studying Alcohol and Drug Use Among Asian American Adolescents

摘要: SUMMARY Researchers have conducted very few studies on substance use among Asian American youths, and current etiological suffered from a number of methodological shortcomings: They employ small sample sizes; they define “Asian” race/ethnicity so broadly that do not distinguish different subpopulations; between U.S.-born Americans recent immigrants; only cross-sectional research design; control for factors may be confounded with race/ethnicity; consider cultural differences in self-reports alcohol drug use. Moreover, these lack adequate theoretical frameworks several conceptual limitations, including their failure to identify salient components as risk or protective factors, attention the role family adaptation process, interactive mediating effects contextual between...