A longitudinal study of acculturative stress and homesickness: High-school adolescents immigrating from Russia and Ukraine to Israel without parents

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 485-494

  Tartakovsky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acculturative stress; Adolescent immigrants; Discrimination; Homesickness; Social support

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATIVE STRESS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NOSTALGIA; PARENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; UKRAINE;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LONELINESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MINORS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUSSIA; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 34249995438     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0184-1     Document Type: Article

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