Acculturation, Substance Use, and Deviant Behavior: Examining Separation and Family Conflict as Mediators
Abstract
This longitudinal study examined how separation and family conflict mediated the effects of two acculturation variables (English language use and generational status) on substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use) and deviant behavior outcomes in a Mexican American high school age sample. Structural equation modeling indicated that separation was a significant mediator of the relationship between acculturation and alcohol use, tobacco use, and deviant behavior. Family conflict mediated the effects of acculturation on marijuana use and deviant behavior. Model comparisons across gender groups suggested that generational status was an influential acculturation measure for females but not males. Additionally, English language use maintained a direct effect on marijuana use among females, whereas this relationship was mediated by separation for males.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Poverty, acculturation, and personality disorders appear to be risk factors for addiction in AIAN individuals as well.
“Consistent with prior research in non-AIAN samples, poverty, acculturation, and personality disorders [95,96,97,98] appear to be risk factors for addiction in AIAN individuals as well [33,43,50].”
From Substance and Behavioral Addictions among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations (2022) · cites this paper as [96]
No citation lists for this paper
No citation lists for this paper yet — checked again daily.
References 95 · Cited by 127
- Authors
- McQueen, A., Getz, J. G., & Bray, J. H.
- Affiliations
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2003-11-01
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1737-1750
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2054353000
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 95
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 12.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01aa008864-10)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01-AA08864)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Psychosocial Factors Impacting Youth
- Keywords
- acculturation, substance use, deviance, family separation, family conflict, English usage, generational status, Mexican American adolescents, alcohol consumption, tobacco use, cannabis use, gender differences, mediation
- MeSH terms
- Acculturation, Adolescent, Alcohol Drinking, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Marijuana Abuse, Conflict, Psychological, Cross-Sectional Studies, Family, Female, Health Surveys, Humans, Individuation, Language, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Models, Psychological, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Smoking, Texas, Mexican Americans
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
