The Relationship Between Quality of Life, Psychological Wellbeing, Satisfaction with Life and Acculturation of Immigrants in Greece
| Autor: | C Prapas, V Mavreas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Gerontology
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Ethnic group Emigrants and Immigrants Personal Satisfaction Affect (psychology) 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Quality of life Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans 0601 history and archaeology media_common 060101 anthropology Greece Public health 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Middle Aged Acculturation 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Anthropology Scale (social sciences) Albania Quality of Life Regression Analysis Female Greeks Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Culture, medicine and psychiatry. 43(1) |
| ISSN: | 1573-076X |
| Popis: | Few studies have examined the quality of life of immigrants in Greece and its relations to acculturation. This study explored the quality of life, psychological wellbeing and satisfaction with life among Albanian immigrants, Pontic Greeks in comparison to native Greeks. Furthermore, the relationship between quality of life, psychological wellbeing, satisfaction with life and acculturation of Albanian immigrants and Pontic Greeks was investigated. The study was based on 520 participants from broader area of Athens, 58.3% (303 people: 150 men and 153 women) native Greeks, 21.9% (114 people: 57 men and 57 women) Albanian immigrants and 19.8% (103 people: 50 men and 53 women) Pontic Greeks. Quality of life was measured by WHOQOL BREF-while wellbeing was measured with Satisfaction With Life Scale and The Affect Balance Scale. An adapted a version of Vancouver Index of Acculturation was used to assess acculturation of immigrants. The findings indicated three important factors contributed to quality of life and wellbeing of immigrants: ethnicity, heritage dimension of acculturation and gender. Albanian immigrants and Pontic Greeks scored lower on quality of life and satisfaction with life than native Greek. |
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