Immigrant Youth Mental Health, Acculturation, and Adaptation

Immigrant Health—Selectivity and Acculturation

Immigrant youth mental health promotion in transnationalizing societies.

Introduction As global migration trends continue into the 21st Century, the nursing profession must respond rapidly through research and practice in addressing the needs of transnationalizing societies. The changing demographic mosaic of multicultural and multiracial cities provides unique opportunities for nurses in the North and South to learn from each other. This paper is an attempt to cont...

Acculturation and adaptation of immigrant adolescents in Greek urban schools.

The purpose of this study was to examine the acculturation, psychological well-being, and school adjustment of Pontian adolescents from the former Soviet Union (FSU-Pontians), who are immigrants of the diaspora living in Greece, compared with an immigrant group from Albania and native Greek classmates. The sample included 165 FSU-Pontian immigrants, 272 immigrants from Albania, and their 525 Gr...

Age, acculturation, cultural adjustment, and mental health symptoms of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese immigrant youths.

This study of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean immigrant junior high and high school students (N = 319) investigated the association between age, acculturation, cultural adjustment difficulties, and general mental health concerns. Hierarchical regression analyses determined that among all of the independent variables, age, acculturation, and cultural adjustment difficulties had significant predict...

Contextualizing acculturation: gender, family, and community reception influences on Asian immigrant mental health.

This article investigates differences in the mental health among male and female immigrants from an ecological perspective, testing the influences of both individual acculturation domains and social contexts. Data from the first nationally representative psychiatric survey of immigrant Asians in the US is used (N = 1,583). These data demonstrate the importance of understanding acculturation dom...