Acculturation, Health Behaviors, and Social Relations among Chinese Immigrants Living in Spain

Badanta, Bárbara; Vega‐Escaño, Juan; Barrientos‐Trigo, Sergio; Tarriño‐Concejero, Lorena; Muñoz, Ma Ángeles García‐Carpintero; González‐Cano‐Caballero, María; Radío, Antonio Manuel Barbero; Jiménez, Domingo de Pedro; Lucchetti, Giancarlo; Diego‐Cordero, Rocío de

doi:10.3390/ijerph18147639

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“…The main meals included breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and this custom was maintained after arriving in Portugal. Even so, breakfast is where the great Westernization of eating habits can be noted, as reported in other countries such as Spain, the United States, and Australia [1,25,26]. Participants in the present study reported preferring to have a markedly Western breakfast instead of the typical Eastern one as it is more practical and easier to prepare.…”

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Dietary Acculturation and Food Habit Changes among Chinese Immigrants in Portugal

Carolino

Sousa

2023

Nutrients

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Chinese individuals who immigrate to a Western country tend to change their eating patterns and behaviors depending on how long they live in the host country. This is dietary acculturation, and it can have a positive or negative impact on eating habits. Thus, we aimed to characterize the dietary acculturation of the Chinese immigrant community in Portugal and check the trend of the direction of this acculturation. The study involved 213 immigrants and assessed food consumption, meal patterns, and dietary acculturation. A mean Western acculturation score of 70.1 ± 8.9. was identified and 71.4% had a high Western acculturation score. No one had low or very high Western acculturation. Participants who have a higher level of acculturation tend to have higher energy and fat intake. The likelihood of mixing meals, including, and combining, Chinese and Portuguese meals and foods is associated with time spent in Portugal. Efforts should be made to encourage Chinese immigrants to make a positive dietary transition during their acculturation process.

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Dietary Acculturation and Food Habit Changes among Chinese Immigrants in Portugal

Carolino

Sousa

2023

Nutrients

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“…Youths with a Chinese background are, as mentioned, the only exception. Language distance to Spanish and Catalan and high levels of ethnic endogeneity in their social networks found by recent studies based on Spain (Badanta et al 2021a;2021b;Wang 2021) are plausible explanations for this.…”

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Language acculturation among the children of immigrants in Spain at the end of the prodigious decade of immigration

Álvarez-Sotomayor,

Gutiérrez-Rubio

2024

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En España, pocos estudios han analizado cómo los hijos de inmigrantes combinan la adquisición del español con el mantenimiento/adquisición de sus lenguas de herencia. Este trabajo avanza en esa dirección explotando datos de una encuesta realizada al final de la llamada década prodigiosa de la inmigración en España. Mediante análisis de conglomerados y bivariados analizamos la distribución de los hijos de inmigrantes en los cuatro tipos de aculturación lingüística resultantes de esta conjunción. El bilingüismo competente es el más frecuente, seguido de la asimilación monolingüística. Sin embargo, el 45% de la muestra no encajaba en el bilingüismo competente, lo que indica una infraexplotación del potencial bilingüe de estos jóvenes. Los análisis multivariantes muestran que las probabilidades de situarse en un tipo de aculturación u otro se ven afectadas por la edad de llegada a España y por la preferencia del idioma utilizado. Los jóvenes de origen chino son los que presentan una situación más problemática en su integración lingüística en la sociedad de acogida.

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“…Being aware that immigrants' cultural identity influences their interpretation of health-related messages from the host society, can help us understand their health-related behaviors. 55 Recent evidence shows that acculturation, mostly capturing immigrants' birthplace and the duration of their stay in the host country, is associated with their health-related behaviors and health outcomes. 56,57 Chinese immigrants' acculturation influences chronic condition management in a complex way, which is shaped by various factors, such as their cultural background, their goals for acculturation, and the pressure they feel to assimilate.…”

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The role of acculturation in the process of advance care planning among Chinese immigrants: A narrative systematic review

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Background: Acculturation is the process of two different cultures coming into contact. It is unclear how acculturation influences Chinese immigrants’ engagement in advance care planning due to the complexity and multifaceted nature of both acculturation and advance care planning. Aims: To synthesize evidence regarding the role of Chinese immigrants’ acculturation in their engagement in advance care planning. Design: Systematic mixed-method review, registered in PROSPERO (CRD42021231822). Data sources: EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched for publications until January 21, 2021. Results: Twenty-one out of 1112 identified articles were included in the analysis. Of those 21 articles, 17 had a qualitative design and 13 originated from the United States. Three of four quantitative studies reported that higher acculturation levels were associated with better knowledge or higher rate of engagement in advance care planning. Analysis of qualitative studies showed that Chinese immigrants’ engagement in advance care planning was associated with their: (1) self-perceived cultural identity (native or non-native); (2) interpretation of filial piety (traditional or modern); and (3) interpretation of autonomy (individual or familial). To facilitate their engagement, Chinese immigrants prefer an implicit approach, non-family-related initiators, contextualization advance care planning in Chinese culture and using Chinese language. Conclusion: Chinese immigrants’ willingness to engage in advance care planning varied with their acculturation level. To engage them in advance care planning, we recommend adapting the introduction of advance care planning to address people’s perceptions of their cultural identity, filial piety, and autonomy, as well as their preference for certain approach, initiator, context, and language.

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Acculturation, Health Behaviors, and Social Relations among Chinese Immigrants Living in Spain

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Dietary Acculturation and Food Habit Changes among Chinese Immigrants in Portugal

Dietary Acculturation and Food Habit Changes among Chinese Immigrants in Portugal

Language acculturation among the children of immigrants in Spain at the end of the prodigious decade of immigration

The role of acculturation in the process of advance care planning among Chinese immigrants: A narrative systematic review

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