title: Understanding the relationship between alcohol and sex: Latino and white college students and problematic sexual experiences while drinking.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors examined whether the relationship between alcohol expectancies and sexual experiences while drinking differed between Latino and white college students.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors considered students if they were white or Latino, unmarried, aged 18-25 years, reported any drinking, and had at least 1 sexual partner in the present school year.
  
  
  METHODS
  The investigators collected surveys from a random sample of 13,868 undergraduate students from the 14 California public university campuses. They used tests of group differences and hierarchical multiple regressions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Social-facilitation alcohol expectancies were associated with the total number of different alcohol-related sexual experiences among Latino students. Neither social facilitation nor sexual-enhancement alcohol expectancies were differentially predictive of white or Latino students' frequency of sexual experiences.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Additional research is necessary to determine whether concepts targeted by alcohol prevention programs operate in a differential manner for Latino students.
authors: Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA. bbourdeau@prev.org
authors: Beth
authors: B
authors: Bourdeau
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Saltz
authors: Melina
authors: M
authors: Bersamin
authors: Joel
authors: J
authors: Grube
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012067:Religion; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*