Social determinants of alcohol and cigarette use by race/ethnicity: Can we ignore measurement issues?

Authors

Hector I. Lopez-Vergara, University of Rhode Island
Robert Rosales, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies
Taneisha S. Scheuermann, University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita
Nikki L. Nollen, University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita
Adam M. Leventhal, University of Southern California
Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, Brown University

Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

11-1-2020

Abstract

Public Significance Statement—We investigated the statistical comparability of commonly used measures indexing alcohol and cigarette use, as well as socioeconomic status and discrimination across Black, Latinx, and White smokers. All of our measures were found to function differently across race/ethnicity, suggesting that between group comparisons of observed scores may introduce bias in estimating parameters across race/ethnicity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Psychological Assessment

Volume

32

Issue

11

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Lopez-Vergara, Hector I., Robert Rosales, Taneisha S. Scheuermann, Nikki L. Nollen, Adam M. Leventhal, and Jasjit S. Ahluwalia. "Social determinants of alcohol and cigarette use by race/ethnicity: Can we ignore measurement issues?." Psychological Assessment 32, 11 (2020): 1075-1086. doi: 10.1037/pas0000948.