Perceived Racial Discrimination, Alcohol Use, and Alcohol-Related Problems: The Moderating Role of Self-Compassion in Reserve-Dwelling First Nation Youth.

ABSTRACT: North American Indigenous youth experience disproportionate rates of racial discrimination as well as consequences associated with alcohol use. Self-compassion has been found to be related to both racial discrimination and alcohol use, separately. However, no work to date has examined the role of self-compassion as a moderator of the links among racial discrimination and alcohol use and alcohol-related problems. First Nation adolescents (N = 106, M _age = 14.6, 50.0% female) from reserve communities in Eastern Canada completed a pencil-and-paper survey regarding their experiences of racial discrimination, self-compassion, alcohol use, and alcohol-related problems. The associations between racial discrimination and both alcohol use and alcohol-related problems

SUBMITTER: Schick MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9648674 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature