TY - JOUR
T1 - Acculturative and neighborhood influences on subjective social status among Spanish-speaking Latino immigrant smokers
AU - Reitzel, Lorraine R.
AU - Mazas, Carlos A.
AU - Cofta-Woerpel, Ludmila
AU - Vidrine, Jennifer I.
AU - Businelle, Michael S.
AU - Kendzor, Darla E.
AU - Li, Yisheng
AU - Cao, Yumei
AU - Wetter, David W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from the Minority Health Research and Education Program of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (K01DP001120). We would like to acknowledge the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service for their contributions to the original research project, Adiós al Fumar, from which our data were derived. Additionally, the authors would like to thank Drs Ellen Cromley, Luisa Franzini, and Maria Fernandez-Esquer for their mentoring contributions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention award (K01DP001120) that supported this work. The authors would also like to express great appreciation for the thoughtful comments of anonymous reviewers in response to an earlier version of this manuscript. The authors do not have any conflicts of interest pertaining to this work.
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Subjective social status (SSS) reflects an individual's perception of her/his relative position in the social hierarchy. However, little is known about culturally-relevant, multilevel predictors of low SSS among low socioeconomic status (SES), minority populations. The goal of this study was to identify individual- and neighborhood-level variables predicting SSS among 297 Spanish-speaking Latino immigrant smokers living in several locations in Texas, with an emphasis on the association of SSS with acculturative and socioeconomic variables. Participants were recruited and enrolled through the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service from August 2002 to March 2004. Determinants of SSS were explored using a series of linear regressions. In analyses adjusting for demographics (including objective indicators of SES), speaking Spanish at home and work and living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, respectively, were associated with low SSS. However, in analyses including demographics, acculturation, and neighborhood characteristics, only income, education, and acculturation remained associated with SSS. Consistent with results from a previous study in the area (Franzini & Fernandez-Esquer, 2006), less acculturation predicted low SSS among immigrant Latino smokers. However, unlike previous research, these associations were maintained after controlling for SES. Results suggest that the density of less acculturated Latinos within economically deprived neighborhoods might account for the disappearance of neighborhood effects in the final model.
AB - Subjective social status (SSS) reflects an individual's perception of her/his relative position in the social hierarchy. However, little is known about culturally-relevant, multilevel predictors of low SSS among low socioeconomic status (SES), minority populations. The goal of this study was to identify individual- and neighborhood-level variables predicting SSS among 297 Spanish-speaking Latino immigrant smokers living in several locations in Texas, with an emphasis on the association of SSS with acculturative and socioeconomic variables. Participants were recruited and enrolled through the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service from August 2002 to March 2004. Determinants of SSS were explored using a series of linear regressions. In analyses adjusting for demographics (including objective indicators of SES), speaking Spanish at home and work and living in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, respectively, were associated with low SSS. However, in analyses including demographics, acculturation, and neighborhood characteristics, only income, education, and acculturation remained associated with SSS. Consistent with results from a previous study in the area (Franzini & Fernandez-Esquer, 2006), less acculturation predicted low SSS among immigrant Latino smokers. However, unlike previous research, these associations were maintained after controlling for SES. Results suggest that the density of less acculturated Latinos within economically deprived neighborhoods might account for the disappearance of neighborhood effects in the final model.
KW - Acculturation
KW - Immigrants
KW - Latinos
KW - Neighborhood
KW - Smoking
KW - Social status
KW - USA
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U2 - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.11.024
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.11.024
M3 - Article
C2 - 20044186
AN - SCOPUS:75849146292
SN - 0277-9536
VL - 70
SP - 677
EP - 683
JO - Social Science and Medicine
JF - Social Science and Medicine
IS - 5
ER -