Immigrant generation, selective acculturation, and alcohol use among Latina/o adolescents

Social Science Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 732-742

  Eitle, Tamela McNulty ^a   Wahl, Ana María González ^b   Aranda, Elizabeth ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Adolescents; Alcohol; Assimilation; Immigrants; Latina os

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; ALCOHOL DRINKING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70149120112     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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