The impact of acculturation and acculturative stress on alcohol use across Asian immigrant subgroups

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 922-931

  Park, So Youn ^a   Anastas, Jeane ^b   Shibusawa, Tazuko ^b   Nguyen, Duy ^b  

^a Kyonggi University   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Acculturative stress; Asian Americans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICAN; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRANT; PHILIPPINES; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PHILIPPINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VIETNAM;

EID: 84899744209     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2013.855232     Document Type: Article

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