School Commitment and Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role of Race and Ethnicity

Autor/inn/en	Eitle, Tamela McNulty; Eitle, David James
Titel	School Commitment and Alcohol Use: The Moderating Role of Race and Ethnicity
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 15 (2007) 22, (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Racial Factors; Racial Differences; Drinking; White Students; Principals; Alcohol Abuse; Student Attitudes; Student Participation; Student Motivation; School Attitudes; Middle School Students; High School Students; Hispanic American Students; African American Students; Parent Influence; Gender Differences; Educational Attainment; Peer Influence; Substance Abuse; Family Structure; Parent Child Relationship; Florida + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Rassenunterschied; Trinken; Principal; Schulleiter; Schülerverhalten; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Schulische Motivation; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Geschlechterkonflikt; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Research indicates that lower levels of school commitment may be one potential outcome of policy initiatives such as high-stakes testing and exit exams. Such outcomes may lead these policy initiatives to have unintended consequences for students, particularly racial or ethnic minority students. This study examines whether race or ethnicity moderate the relationship between school commitment and alcohol use or binge drinking among a sample of Florida public middle and high-school students who were surveyed as part of the 2002 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey. Low school commitment was found to be associated with a greater likelihood of alcohol use in the past 30 days and a greater likelihood of binge drinking during the past two weeks for Black, Hispanic, and White students. Both the higher average levels of school commitment among Black and Hispanic than among white students and the greater association between low school commitment and the two alcohol use outcomes for Black and Hispanic students compared to White students account for some of the difference in alcohol use and binge drinking among the different groups. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10