Citation

Safer AM, Piane G. Psychol. Rep. 2007; 101(2): 565-573.

Affiliation

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-1001, USA. asafer@csulb.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18175500

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.

Language: en