PubMed · 4482157
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A M Griffin. 1972. Understanding the immigrant worker.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4482157/
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This chapter examines theoretical and empirical evidence on the interplay between ethnicity, structural and cultural factors, and alcohol-related assaults against wives and considers whether there is a differential vulnerability to such assaults among varying ethnic groups. Our review demonstrated that structural factors emerged as dominant in their influence on alcohol-related wife assaults in varying ethnic groups. The empirical evidence, though limited, showed that the linkages between drinking and wife beating are not just a problem of poor ethnic minorities. Heavy drinking per se is associated similarly in Hispanic-American and Anglo-American families. However, we also identified differences among Hispanic subgroups, as well as cultural variations in drinking patterns that differentially affected wife assaults. Although data on alcohol-wife assault relationships among African Americans are extremely limited, the available evidence indicates little or no effect of drinking by African-American men on wife assaults, after taking other socioeconomic variables into account. Empirical evidence did not support the saliency of particular cultural beliefs favoring violence toward women as intrinsic to any one ethnic group. The major cultural differences in alcohol-related cognitions are consistent with the greater legitimation of alcohol-related misbehavior and the acceptance of "machismo" drinking by Hispanic Americans compared to Anglo-Americans.
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the relationship between acculturation and obesity in United States (US) Hispanics, controlling for socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS: The sample included 3141 Mexican American, 828 Cuban American, and 1211 Puerto Rican adults 18-74 y of age in the 1982-84 Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES). Acculturation was measured by language preference and generation; SES by income and education; and obesity by body mass index (BMI). RESULTS: Mean and standard deviations of BMI (kg/m2) were 25.9 +/- 4.4, 26.0 +/- 4.2, and 25.5 +/- 4.3 in men of Mexican American, Cuban American, and Puerto Rican origin, respectively. For women, the corresponding values were 26.6 +/- 5.8, 25.9 +/- 5.0, and 26.2 +/- 5.9. Linear regression models of BMI which included acculturation, income, education, and other covariates were carried out. Income and education were not associated consistently with BMI. Acculturation, but only among Mexican Americans, was associated with BMI. Specifically, greater preference for English was associated with reduced BMI among women (P < 0.01). Also, men and women of the second (P < 0.001 in both sexes) and third (P < 0.01 in men P < 0.001 in women) generation had greater BMIs. Relative to the first generation, the increase in BMI units was 1.15 +/- 0.34 in men and 1.76 +/- 0.39 in women in the second generation and 0.83 +/- 0.31 in men and 1.83 +/- 0.37 in women of the third generation. CONCLUSIONS: BMI was not associated with SES, an unexpected finding since the relationship is generally negative in women from developed countries. The relationship between BMI and acculturation was weak and conditional. BMI in Mexican Americans appeared to be somewhat more sensitive to the process of acculturation than among Cubans or Puerto Ricans.
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