Ethnicity versus migration: Two hypotheses about the psychosocial adjustment of immigrant adolescents

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-53

  Slonim Nevo, Vered ^a   Sharaga, Yana ^a   Mirsky, Julia ^a   Petrovsky, Vadim ^b   Borodenko, Marina ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Center for Childhood and the Family   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; ISRAEL; JEW; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SELF ESTEEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; USSR; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; USSR;

EID: 31844436488     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764006061247     Document Type: Article

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