Acculturation strategies, coping process and acculturative stress

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-278

  Kosic, Ankica ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acculturation strategies; Acculturative stress; Coping; Immigrants

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROATIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; POLAND; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CROATIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; POLAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 4544341822     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2004.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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