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ERIC Number: EJ480714
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0090-1482
Stressful Loss and the Buffering Effect of Social Support on Drinking Behavior among African-Americans: Results of a National Survey.
Johnson, Kenneth A.; Jennison, Karen M.
Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, v39 n2 p1-24 Win 1994
Examined stressful loss for individual and extended kin, buffering hypothesis, and utilitarian drinking among 1,478 African Americans. Respondents who experienced stressful losses, or whose extended family members experienced such losses, were significantly likely to drink excessively. Results suggest that supportive social resources, particularly extended kinship network and church, can attenuate effects of negative life stressors on drinking. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Blacks, Church Role, Coping, Death, Divorce, Drinking, Extended Family, Kinship, Life Events, Social Support Groups, Stress Variables, Unemployment
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Loss