A gender-oriented comparison between the mental health profiles of Bulgarian immigrants forcibly migrated to Turkey and the native population 15 years after migration

International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-28

  Yenilmez, Cinar ^a   Ayranci, Unal ^a   Topal, Serdar ^a   Aksaray, Gokay ^a   Seber, Gülten ^a   Kaptanoglu, Cem ^a  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Gender; Hopelessness; Immigration; Job satisfaction; Life satisfaction; Short symptom inventory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 33947137318     PISSN: 13651501     EISSN: 14711788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13651500600874337     Document Type: Article

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