title: Alcohol-related problems encountered by Japanese, Caucasians, and Japanese-Americans.
abstract: Using population-based survey data, personal-problematic and socioproblematic factors were examined among Japanese in Japan, Japanese-Americans in Hawaii, and Japanese-Americans; Caucasians in California were analyzed as a control group. Caucasian males were more likely to exhibit drinking-related social problems, whereas Japanese males showed more personal-problematic symptoms. Japanese-American men, both in Hawaii and California, were least likely among the three ethnic groups to have personal-problematic symptoms and were more likely to have socioproblematic symptoms than Japanese men. These differences might be explained by differences in the perception of social problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Izuno
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyakawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsunoda
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Parrish
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogata
authors.forename: T C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Harford
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Towle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001213:Asian; D002140:California; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004651:Employment; D005006:Ethnicity; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D044465:White People