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School-Class Co-Ethnic and Immigrant Density and Current Smoking among Immigrant Adolescents
Kern, Matthias Robert; Heinz, Andreas; Willems, Helmut
2020In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (2)
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Keywords :
migration; smoking; substance use; adolescence; ethnic density; ethnic composition; school class; multilevel analysis; HBSC; acculturative stress
Abstract :
[en] Although the school-class is known to be an important setting for adolescent risk behavior, little is known about how the ethnic composition of a school-class impacts substance use among pupils with a migration background. Moreover, the few existing studies do not distinguish between co-ethnic density (i.e., the share of immigrants belonging to one’s own ethnic group) and immigrant density (the share of all immigrants). This is all the more surprising since a high co-ethnic density can be expected to protect against substance use by increasing levels of social support and decreasing acculturative stress, whereas a high immigrant density can be expected to do the opposite by facilitating inter-ethnic conflict and identity threat. This study analyses how co-ethnic density and immigrant density are correlated with smoking among pupils of Portuguese origin in Luxembourg. A multi-level analysis is used to analyze data from the Luxembourg Health Behavior in School-Aged Children study (N = 4268 pupils from 283 classes). High levels of co-ethnic density reduced current smoking. In contrast, high levels of immigrant density increased it. Thus, in research on the health of migrants, the distinction between co-ethnic density and immigrant density should be taken into account, as both may have opposite effects.
Disciplines :
Public health, health care sciences & services
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Kern, Matthias Robert ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Heinz, Andreas ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
Willems, Helmut ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
School-Class Co-Ethnic and Immigrant Density and Current Smoking among Immigrant Adolescents
Publication date :
17 January 2020
Journal title :
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
ISSN :
1661-7827
Publisher :
MDPI AG, Switzerland
Special issue title :
The Health and Wellbeing of Migrant Populations
Volume :
17
Issue :
2
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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