Immigrant status and gender effects on psychopathology and self-concept in adolescents: a test of the migration-morbidity hypothesis.
Evidence for a relationship between immigrant status and psychological morbidity (which we shall refer to as the "migration-morbidity" hypothesis) in adolescents is variable and inconclusive. The present study tests this hypothesis and also explores gender differences in self-reported psychopathology and self-concept measures. Native-born Australians, Australian-born adolescent children of immigrants, and immigrant and refugee adolescents are compared on a number of relevant measures. The results do not support the migration-morbidity hypothesis. However, Vietnamese refugee adolescents had poorer self-concept than the other groups.
Klimidis
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Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia.
Stuart
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Minas
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Ata
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D000069:Acculturation; D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001315:Australia; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010553:Personality Development; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception