Acculturation in Context: Gender, Age at Migration, Neighborhood Ethnicity, and Health Behaviors

作者：Kimbro Rachel Tolbert^*

来源：Social Science Quarterly, 2009, 90(5): 1145-1166.

DOI：10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00651.x

Objectives
This article investigates differences in smoking and binge-drinking for Latinos by nativity, stratified by their age at immigration, and tests individual- and neighborhood-level acculturation measures as determinants of those differences.
Methods
Data are from the Los Angeles Families and Neighborhoods Study (N=2,023) and analyses use multilevel logistic regression.
Results
The article finds that Latino immigrants are less likely to smoke or binge drink, compared to their U.S.-born peers, and that acculturation measures account for some of the immigrant gaps in health behaviors, although results differ by gender and age at migration. Additionally, living in a neighborhood with a high foreign-born concentration is associated with lower odds of binge-drinking.
Conclusions
Findings suggest that both individual- and neighborhood-level measures of acculturation may contribute to immigrant health behavior advantages, and that it is important to consider these relationships within the context of gender and age at migration.

• 出版日期2009-12