Mexican-American Men's Experience of Avoiding a Second Driving under the Influence Violation: A Conventional Content Analysis
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Authors
Almada, Ricardo
Issue Date
2018
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
"Mexican Americans" , "DUI", " culture" , " machismo", "familismo"
Alternative Title
Abstract
This qualitative study focused on Mexican American men and their experience of avoiding a second Driving Under the Influence (DUI) violation after an initial conviction. Research shows that Mexican American men are 1.5 times more likely to drive after drinking and be involved in alcohol related incidents (Caetano, Ramisetty-Mikler, & Rodriguez, 2008 ; Mills & Caetano, 2012). Despite several prevention initiatives over the last 30 years, there has been only minimal reduction of DUI recidivism rates among Mexican Americans (Miller, Curtis, Sonderland, Day, & Droste, 2015). This study focused on identifying themes that emerged from semi-structured interviews with 10 Mexican American men who avoided getting a second DUI violation for a minimum of two years after their initial DUI conviction. Several themes emerged, including: family and friends use of alcohol created opportunity to start drinking at a young age, changes in interpersonal relationships, overall lifestyle changes, methods of getting home after drinking that are less shameful, underestimation of problem drinking and impairment before the DUI violation, adverse emotional and financial consequences of DUI violation led to family conflicts which caused further shame, anger, and sadness, and temptations to drink. The implications of the findings for prevetion, treatment and future research are discussed.