ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2016
Association of the firewater myth with drinking behavior among American Indian and Alaska Native college students.
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- Beliefs about causal factors for suicide in rural Alaska Native communities and recommendations for prevention.Transcultural psychiatry · 2022Article
- Belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native biological vulnerability to alcohol problems among reservation-dwelling participants with a substance use problem.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Historical trauma and substance use among American Indian people with current substance use problems.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2021Article
- Substance Use Research with Indigenous Communities: Exploring and Extending Foundational Principles of Community Psychology.American journal of community psychology · 2019Article
- Endorsement of the "firewater myth" affects the use of protective behavioral strategies among American Indian and Alaska Native students.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Understanding the link between racial trauma and substance use among American Indians.The American psychologist · 2019Article
- Association of belief in the "firewater myth" with strategies to avoid alcohol consequences among American Indian and Alaska Native college students who drink.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Descriptive drinking norms in Native American and non-Hispanic White college students.Addictive behaviors · 2017Article
- Alcohol consumption and pregnancy in American Indian and Alaska Native women: A scoping review of the literature.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
The firewater myth (FM) is the notion that American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol and vulnerable to alcohol problems due to biological or genetic differences. Believing that one is vulnerable to problems with alcohol may have negative effects on expectancies and drinking behavior among AI/ANs who drink; however, the association of belief in the FM with alcohol outcomes has not previously been examined. In this study we examined the factor structure of a revised version of the Firewater Myth Scale (FMS; LaMarr, 2003) and the association of belief in the FM with alcohol use, consequences, attitudes, and expectancies with 159 AI/AN college students who drink. On average, participants "slightly agreed" with the FM and scores were normally distributed. There were significant small to moderate positive associations between believing that AI/ANs have a biological vulnerability to problems with alcohol (i.e., the FM) and drinks consumed per week, frequency of heavy episodic drinking, and alcohol consequences, as well as belief in a disease model of "alcoholism," attempts to control drinking, guilt over drinking small amounts of alcohol, both positive and negative alcohol expectancies, temptation to drink heavily, and lack of self-efficacy to drink moderately. Although this is only an initial examination of potential consequences of belief in the FM for AI/AN students who drink, the results suggest that this belief may be harmful and have negative effects on attempts to moderate drinking. (PsycINFO Database Record
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