* Substance use, age at migration, and length of residence among adult immigrants in the United States.
- In this study we scrutinize prevalence of current smoking and binge drinking among adult US immigrants, and examine whether age at migration predicts these two behaviors and moderates the effect of length of residence. Immigrant groups include those from Latin America/Caribbean, East and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/Central Asia, and Middle East/North Africa. Multivariate logistic regressions are estimated using cross-sectional data from the New Immigrant Survey (N = 7,397). Results show that patterns of smoking and binge drinking vary by gender and by region of origins. In addition, arriving at age 0-9 are directly associated with higher odds of binge drinking among adult women. Among adult men, age at migration moderates the association between length of residence and substance use. Specifically, length of residence has more detrimental effects for adolescent immigrants (arriving at age 10-18) on smoking, while its detrimental effects are more pronounced for childhood immigrants (arriving at age 0-9) on binge drinking. We interpret our findings within the critical period model in epidemiological research, concluding that adolescence and childhood are critical life stages that are associated with differential effects of length of residence when looking at smoking and binge drinking among immigrant men.
=>新発見の, 新しい, 現代的な, 新参の
Overview of adj new
The adj new has 11 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (310) new -- (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been
made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new
year"; "the New World")
2. (36) fresh, new, novel -- (original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a
completely novel proof of a well-known theorem")
3. (11) raw, new -- (lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw
recruits")
4. (5) new, unexampled -- (having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of
unexampled prosperity")
5. (3) new -- (other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car
is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction")
6. new -- (unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new")
7. newfangled, new -- ((of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys
all these new-fangled machines and never uses them")
8. New -- (in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st
dynasties")
9. Modern, New -- (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern
English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew")
10. new, young -- ((of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
"new potatoes"; "young corn")
11. new -- (unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the
job")
Overview of adv new
The adv new has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) newly, freshly, fresh, new -- (very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor";
"we are fresh out of tomatoes")
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