Trauma and Mental Health in Resettled Refugees: Mediating Effect of Host Language Acquisition on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms
| Autor: | Dzenana Kartal, Litza Kiropoulos, Nathan Alkemade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Warfare Mediation (statistics) Health (social science) Adolescent Refugee 050109 social psychology Anxiety Models Psychological Life Change Events Stress Disorders Post-Traumatic Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intervention (counseling) Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Young adult Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Language Aged 80 and over Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Refugees Depression business.industry 05 social sciences Australia Middle Aged Language acquisition Mental health 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Austria Female Self Report medicine.symptom business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Transcultural Psychiatry. 56:3-23 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7471 1363-4615 |
| Popis: | This study examined the relationship between traumatic exposure, host language acquisition and mental health (posttraumatic stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms) in long-term resettled refugees. Participants included a community sample of Bosnian refugees ( N = 138, 55% male, mean age of 40 years old) that had resettled in Australia and Austria on average 18 years prior. Two mediation models were tested based on two competing theories. Model A examined whether language acquisition mediates the relationship between traumatic exposure and mental health problems experienced by refugees. Model B examined whether mental health symptoms mediate the relationship between exposure to traumatic events and the acquisition of host language. Model A fit the data well (CFI = 1.00, SRMR = .017, RMSEA 2 p = .526), while Model B was rejected as an acceptable model for the data (CFI = .556, SRMR = .136, RMSEA = .352). In Model A, the indirect pathway from trauma to mental health via language acquisition was significant for PTSD ( β = .067, p = .028) and anxiety symptoms ( β = .063, p = .026) but not depression symptoms ( β = .048, p = .071). Intervention strategies aimed at improving host language acquisition may be important not only in successful adaptation to daily living in the host country, but also to improve the mental health of traumatized refugees. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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