Impact of new country, discrimination, and acculturation-related factors on depression and anxiety among ex-Soviet Jewish migrants: data from a population-based cross-national comparison study.

Autor: Trilesnik B; Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.; Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Stompe T; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Justizanstalt Göllersdorf, Göllersdorf, Austria.; Austria Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria., Walsh SD; Department of Criminologym, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel., Fydrich T; Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Graef-Calliess IT; Department for General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Wunstorf Clinic, Hannover Region Clinics, Wunstorf, Germany.; Deptartment of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) [Int Rev Psychiatry] 2023 May-Jun; Vol. 35 (3-4), pp. 289-301. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 19.
DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2022.2164180
Abstrakt: Migration, displacement, and flight are major worldwide phenomena and typically pose challenges to mental health. Therefore, migrants' mental health, and the factors which may predict it, have become an important research subject. The present population-based cross-national comparison study explores symptoms of depression, anxiety, and somatization, as well as quality-of-life in samples of ex-Soviet Jewish migrants settling in three new countries: Germany, Austria and Israel, as well as in a sample of non-migrant ex-Soviet Jews in their country of origin, Russia. In the current study, we investigate the relationship of perceived xenophobiа and antisemitism, acculturation attitudes, ethnic and national identity, as well as affiliation with Jewish religion and culture to the psychological well-being of these migrants. Furthermore, we consider xenophobic and antisemitic attitudes as well as the acculturation orientation of the new countries' societies, assessed in the native control samples. Our data suggest that attitudes of the new country's society matter for the mental health of this migrant group. We conclude that the level of distress among ex-Soviet Jewish migrants seems to depend, among other factors, on the characteristics of the new country and/or specific interactions of the migrant population with the society they are settling in.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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