TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting high school minority adolescents drinking from their exposure to white schoolmates
T2 - Differences and similarities among hispanic, black, and Asian U.S. adolescents
AU - Cleveland, H. Harrington
AU - Wiebe, Richard P.
AU - McGuire, Jenifer
AU - Zheng, Yao
PY - 2015/4/3
Y1 - 2015/4/3
N2 - White students drinking may constitute a risk factor for drinking among same-school minority adolescents. Our study examined data from 14,986 ethnic minority American high school students (56% female, mean age = 15.6). Models examined associations between school-level White student drinking and same-school Black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents drinking, as well as whether schools proportions of White students and friendships with White schoolmates moderated these associations. Both school-level White students drinking and minority students friendships with White schoolmates were associated with levels of minority student drinking. But these associations were dependent upon levels of other study variables. In particular, there were higher associations between school-level risk factors and minorities drinking when minority adolescents had high proportions of Whites among their friends.
AB - White students drinking may constitute a risk factor for drinking among same-school minority adolescents. Our study examined data from 14,986 ethnic minority American high school students (56% female, mean age = 15.6). Models examined associations between school-level White student drinking and same-school Black, Hispanic, and Asian adolescents drinking, as well as whether schools proportions of White students and friendships with White schoolmates moderated these associations. Both school-level White students drinking and minority students friendships with White schoolmates were associated with levels of minority student drinking. But these associations were dependent upon levels of other study variables. In particular, there were higher associations between school-level risk factors and minorities drinking when minority adolescents had high proportions of Whites among their friends.
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U2 - 10.1080/15332640.2014.973626
DO - 10.1080/15332640.2014.973626
M3 - Article
C2 - 25984957
AN - SCOPUS:84929615252
SN - 1533-2640
VL - 14
SP - 166
EP - 186
JO - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
IS - 2
ER -