Open AccessParental Educational Attainment and Relatives’ Substance Use of American Youth: Hispanics’ Diminished Returns
Author(s) -
Shervin Assari,
Cleopatra Howard Caldwell,
Mohsen Bazargan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of biosciences and medicines
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2327-509X
pISSN - 2327-5081
DOI - 10.4236/jbm.2020.82010
Subject(s) - educational attainment , ethnic group , demography , moderation , substance use , marital status , population , psychology , graduation (instrument) , gerontology , social class , medicine , clinical psychology , sociology , social psychology , economics , economic growth , geometry , mathematics , anthropology , political science , law
Research on Minorities' Diminished Returns (MDRs) has shown higher than expected substance use (tobacco and alcohol use) in middle-class Hispanic and Black youth and adults. In theory, some of this more than expected risk might be due to the high substance use problem of the social network. To better understand the role of social network as an explanatory mechanism behind higher than expected substance use of middle-class Hispanic and Black youth, this study tested MDRs of parental educational attainment on substance use involvement of biological relatives in Hispanic and Black middle-class youth, we compared ethnic groups for effects of parental educational attainment on the substance use involvement of biological relatives among American youth.