ArticleJournal of ethnicity in substance abuse
The cost of minority stress: Risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking behavior in African American college students.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Pooled it
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- Methodological Challenges and Insights in Research on Racial Discrimination and Substance Use Among Black College Students: A Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Suicidality, Psychological Inflexibility, and Emotional Resilience Among Black College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Substance use to cope with trauma: the interactive effect of insomnia and neighborhood socioeconomic status.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Feasibility and preliminary outcomes of a peer-led diabetes self-management support program for black men: the michigan men's diabetes project (MenD II).Frontiers in clinical diabetes and healthcare · 2026Article
- Sex differences in blackout: evidence of a relationship between disorders of arousal during sleep and alcohol-related blackout in females.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Sex Differences in the Synergistic Effects of Distress Intolerance and Anxiety Sensitivity on Alcohol Use and Related Problems Among Black Adults who Smoke.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Anxiety coping motives moderate links between discrimination and alcohol use in immigrant-origin and non-immigrant LGBQ+ college student.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Prospective examination of how alcohol consumption might drive changes in urgency and drinking motives over the first year of college.Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2025Article
- Understanding the "Paradox" in Black-White Alcohol Outcomes: Examining High-Effort Coping and Health Behaviors with a Focus on Black Populations and College Students.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- Internalized Homophobia and Cigarette Use Among Latino and Black Sexual Minority Men: Protective and Risk Factors.Stigma and health · 2025Article
- Model Building with Youth: Applying a System Science Approach to Examine the Dynamic Social Context of Adolescent and Young Adult Marijuana Use.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- ADHD and Cannabis Use in College Students: Examining Indirect Effects of Coping Motives.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Examining a Race-Sex Interaction Effect on Binge Drinking Among Afro-Latina/o Adults in the US.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Family-Focused Prevention and Early Intervention of Substance Use in Pediatric Primary Care Settings.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Article
- Racism and alcohol-related problems among Black adults: The role of negative emotionality to experiencing racism.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Exploring the promotive pathway between ethnic-racial identity, depression and anxiety symptoms, and substance use among African American emerging adults.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2024Article
- Parental drinking and observations of parent-child problem-solving discussions: Do drinking motives matter?Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
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Abstract
A motivational drinking framework is utilized to understand the relationship between minority stressors (e.g., race-related stress and acculturative stress) and alcohol use behaviors (risky alcohol use and coping-motivated drinking) among a large sample of Black American college students. Six hundred forty-nine Black college students from 8 colleges and universities in the United States were recruited as part of a large, multiwave, cross-sectional study investigating the stress and coping experiences of Black emerging adults. Results from the current investigation provide support for the independent contributions of acculturative stress and race-related stress to the risky alcohol use behavior of Black college students, while acculturative stress significantly predicted coping-motivated drinking behaviors in the sample. Findings underscore the need to better understand the unique relationships between minority stress and risky alcohol use behaviors of Black college students, namely, relationships not shared by their nonminority peers that increase their risk of problem drinking.
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