ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2022
Ethnic discrimination and alcohol-related problem severity among Hispanic/Latin drinkers: The role of social anxiety in the minority stress model.
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- Understanding the relationship of social anxiety with alcohol use and alcohol-related problems in young people: A meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- A meta-analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Racism-related experiences and substance use: A systematic and meta-analytic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Pooled it
- Acculturative stress and internalizing problems among Latinos who drink hazardously: The roles of distress tolerance and emotion dysregulation.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Perceptions, barriers, and coping preferences towards quitting among ethnic minority young adults with alcohol use disorder: a phenomenological study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Age-varying association between discrimination, childhood family support, and substance use disorders among Latin American immigrants in the United States.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2024Article
- Role of perceived discrimination and anxiety sensitivity in cigarette smoking among english-speaking latinx adults living in the United States.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- The role of sociocultural factors on alcohol self-efficacy and protective drinking behaviors among Hispanic/Latinx young adults.Ethnicity & healthArticle
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Abstract
introductionHispanic/Latin individuals in the U.S. experience many health disparities, including worse alcohol-related outcomes. Thus, identifying psycho-sociocultural factors that may play a role in alcohol-related problems among these individuals is vital to informing prevention and treatment efforts. Minority stress-based models of alcohol misuse posit that some Hispanic/Latin individuals may drink (and continue to drink despite drinking-related problems) to alleviate negative affect associated with experiencing ethnic discrimination. Yet, little research has directly tested this hypothesis. Given the social nature of both ethnic discrimination and drinking, it follows that experiencing more ethnic discrimination could be related to greater social anxiety and some individuals may misuse alcohol to cope with this type of negative affect.
methodsParticipants were 373 Hispanic/Latin current drinking undergraduates.
resultsEthnic discrimination was significantly, positively correlated with alcohol-related problems, social anxiety, and coping motivated drinking, even after controlling for drinking frequency and quantity, traumatic life events, and several relevant demographic variables. Discrimination was indirectly related to alcohol-related problems via the sequential relations of social anxiety and coping motives. Alternative model testing indicated that social anxiety was not related to alcohol problems via discrimination, strengthening confidence in directionality of proposed relations.
conclusionsDiscrimination is associated with greater anxiety about negative evaluation among Hispanic/Latin individuals. The current study extended understanding of the impact of this type of anxiety by determining that social anxiety appears to play an important role in the relation between discrimination and alcohol-related problems among Hispanic/Latin young adults.
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