Acculturative Stress or Resilience? A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis of Sojourners' Stress and Self-Esteem

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1241-1262

  Geeraert, Nicolas ^a   Demoulin, Stéphanie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

acculturation; cultural psychology; immigration migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884556177     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022113478656     Document Type: Article

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