title: Gender roles and substance use among Mexican American adolescents: a relationship moderated by acculturation?
abstract: This research assesses the effects of adaptive/ maladaptive gender roles and acculturation in predicting substance use in a 2007 sample of 1466 Mexican American seventh-grade adolescents from Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Multiple regression analyses found significant effects for both adaptive and maladaptive gender roles, as well as several gender-specific interactions between gender roles and linguistic acculturation that predicted substance use. Limitations of the research are noted, as well as implications for understanding the impact of acculturation on how gender roles differentially affect substance use in Mexican American boys versus girls.
authors.affiliation: Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. kulis@asu.edu
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kulis
authors.forename: Flavio Francisco
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Marsiglia
authors.forename: Julie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Nagoshi
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001130:Arizona; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*