Prediction of adaptation difficulties by country of origin, cumulate psychosocial stressors and attitude toward integrating: A Swedish study of first-generation immigrants from Somalia, Vietnam and China

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 174-182

  Johnsson, Ewa ^a   Zolkowska, Krystyna ^b   McNeil, Thomas F ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

adaptation; attitude toward integrating; Immigrant; migration; stress factor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CHINA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMALIA; SWEDEN; VIET NAM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CHINA; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOMALIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924806398     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764014537639     Document Type: Article

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