Citation

Sage GP, Burns GL. Am. Indian Alsk. Native Ment. Health Res. 1993; 5(2): 46-56.

Affiliation

Cornell University, Gannett Health Center, Psychological Services, Ithaca, NY 14853-3101.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8130313

Abstract

American Indian and Euroamerican adolescents were compared in regard to the events that they saw as responsible for their alcohol use. American Indian males believed that heredity played a more important role in their use of alcohol than Euroamerican males. American Indian males also believed that fate was a more important influence on their use of alcohol than American Indian females and Euroamerican females and that environmental events (e.g., problems at home) were a less important influence than the three other groups. Euroamerican females saw distressing events as more responsible for their alcohol use than the American Indian females and Euroamerican males. Euroamerican females also saw themselves as more responsible for their alcohol use than the American Indian females and males and Euroamerican males. The treatment implications of these attributional differences in reasons for alcohol use are discussed, especially in regard to American Indian adolescent males.

Language: en