title: Analysis of acculturation, sex, and heavy alcohol use in Latino college students.
abstract: 24% of 917 students at California State University Long Beach who completed an alcohol use survey in 2002 (73% response) identified themselves as Latino. Because measures of acculturation reported in most adult studies positively correlated with alcohol use and sex, it was hypothesized that these associations might also apply to Latino college students. With increasing levels of acculturation, women but not men in this Latino college sample reported significantly greater occurrence of heavy drinking, positive attitudes about drinking, and perception that most of their friends use alcoholic beverages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-1001, USA. asafer@csulb.edu
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Safer
authors.forename: Gina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piane
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires