Profiles of acculturation among Hispanics in the United States: links with discrimination and substance use.
Purpose: Recent research suggests that acculturation is a multifaceted construct with implications for substance use among Hispanics. However, few, if any, studies examining profiles of acculturation have been conducted using national samples. Moreover, no cluster-based studies have examined how acc...
| Published in: | Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 39 - 50 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2015
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