Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica Del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile; Instituto de Investigaciones en Comportamiento Alimentario y Nutrición (IICAN), Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; Escuela de Nutrición y Dietética, Facultad de Salud, Universidad Santo Tomás, Antofagasta, Chile.
Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica Del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
Appetite. 2021 Feb 1;157:105006. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2020.105006. Epub 2020 Oct 15.
Immigration changes the daily dynamics of migrant individuals and communities, as individuals confront new cultures and environments, including new foods and eating styles. Consequent influences on eating behaviors comprise an individual's actions in feeding themself that are conditioned by biological, social, cultural, and psychological factors. Mental health indicators such as anxiety and stress reflect negative impacts of acculturation on migrants' health, but ethnic identity is potentially protective. However, the relationship between these mental health indicators and immigrant populations' eating behaviors have not been addressed. Our objective was to analyze the mediating effects of acculturation stress and ethnic identity on the relationship between anxiety and three dimensions of eating behaviors in Colombian migrants living in Chile. A total of 959 Colombian immigrants participated. Ethnic identity only partially mediated the effect of emotional eating. The other two dimensions had direct effects but no mediating effects. Conversely, acculturation stress and emotional eating partially mediated restrained eating while external intake had a direct effect but no mediation. Anxiety had significant direct effects with all the dimensions analyzed. Ethnic identity score related to a protective effect between anxiety and emotional eating. Stress of acculturation, conversely, was a risk factor in the relationship between anxiety, emotional eating, and restrained eating.
移民改变了移民个人和社区的日常动态，因为个人面临着新的文化和环境，包括新的食物和饮食方式。饮食行为的后续影响包括个人在满足自身需求时的行为，这些行为受到生物、社会、文化和心理因素的影响。焦虑和压力等心理健康指标反映了文化适应对移民健康的负面影响，但族裔认同具有潜在的保护作用。然而，这些心理健康指标与移民群体的饮食行为之间的关系尚未得到解决。我们的目的是分析文化适应压力和族裔认同在焦虑与生活在智利的哥伦比亚移民的三种饮食行为维度之间的关系中的中介作用。共有 959 名哥伦比亚移民参与了这项研究。族裔认同仅部分中介了情绪性进食的影响。其他两个维度有直接影响，但没有中介作用。相反，文化适应压力和情绪性进食部分中介了节制性进食，而外部摄入量有直接影响，但没有中介作用。焦虑与所有分析的维度都有显著的直接影响。族裔认同分数与焦虑和情绪性进食之间的保护性效应有关。相反，文化适应压力是焦虑、情绪性进食和节制性进食之间关系的一个风险因素。
