Department of Criminal Justice, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA.
Prev Sci. 2023 Feb;24(2):309-321. doi: 10.1007/s11121-022-01369-1. Epub 2022 Jun 20.
The immigration experience in the USA has been linked to a wide range of behavioral and physical outcomes. Studies report that immigrants, relative to native-born citizens, are less likely to develop alcohol use habits despite facing hardship during the acculturation process. Limited research, however, has examined whether and to what extent resting heart rate (RHR) plays a role in accounting for individual differences in the acculturation process in the USA. To begin to address this gap in research, cross-sectional self-report data (N = 4775) from a nationally representative sample of US adults are analyzed to examine the association between the immigrant experience, alcohol use, and drunkenness. The role of low, mean, and high RHR on this association is investigated. The results reveal that respondents with higher levels of the immigrant experience report lower levels of alcohol use and drunkenness. RHR partially conditions the relationship between the immigrant experience and alcohol use, whereby respondents with higher levels of the immigrant experience and high RHR report less alcohol use and drunkenness, compared to more native respondents with low RHR. Immigrant experience and alcohol use were associated, but not with drunkenness among respondents with average RHR levels, relative to those with low RHR levels. The results suggest that RHR may be a potential source of both risk for and resilience to the development of alcohol use behaviors among immigrants going through the acculturation process in the USA.
美国的移民经历与广泛的行为和身体结果有关。研究报告称，与土生土长的公民相比，移民在融入文化的过程中尽管面临困难，但发展饮酒习惯的可能性较小。然而，很少有研究探讨静息心率（RHR）是否以及在多大程度上在解释美国的文化适应过程中的个体差异方面发挥作用。为了开始解决这一研究差距，分析了来自美国成年人全国代表性样本的横断面自我报告数据（N=4775），以研究移民经历、饮酒和醉酒之间的关联。研究了低、平均和高 RHR 对这种关联的作用。结果表明，移民经历水平较高的受访者报告的饮酒量和醉酒程度较低。RHR 部分调节了移民经历与饮酒之间的关系，与低 RHR 的更本土的受访者相比，具有较高移民经历和高 RHR 的受访者报告的饮酒量和醉酒量较少。移民经历与饮酒量有关，但在 RHR 水平平均的受访者中，与 RHR 水平较低的受访者相比，与醉酒无关。研究结果表明，RHR 可能是在美国经历文化适应过程的移民中发展饮酒行为的风险和恢复力的潜在来源。
