Sociocultural adjustment of immigrants: Universal and group-specific predictors

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-211

  Zlobina, Anna ^a   Basabe, Nekane ^a   Paez, Dario ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Immigration; Social difficulty; Sociocultural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444449539     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2005.07.005     Document Type: Article

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