Associations of stressful life events with stress symptoms and well-being of adolescent refugees: mediation by post-migration stressors and protective resources?

IF 2.4 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Psychology & Health Pub Date : 2024-11-07 DOI:10.1080/08870446.2024.2422822

Arnold Lohaus, Jana-Elisa Rueth, Usama El-Awad, Hannah Nilles, Denny Kerkhoff, Johanna Braig, Pia Schmees, Heike Eschenbeck

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Abstract

Objective: This paper focuses on the relationship between stressful life events experienced by young refugees and their reports of psychological and somatic stress symptoms and well-being. It examines whether this relationship is mediated by personal and social resources and by acculturation hassles experienced in the host country.

Methods: Path analyses were calculated based on data from 147 adolescents aged 11 to 18 years from the Middle East after their flight to Germany to test the proposed mediation model.

Results: The number of experienced stressful life event types was directly linked to current psychological and somatic stress symptoms. The association with psychological stress symptoms was partially mediated by acculturation hassles experienced in the host culture. Well-being was not related to stressful life events but showed significant associations with available social resources. A closer inspection of the mediation by acculturation hassles showed that discrimination hassles and socio-cultural adaptation hassles are important mediators in the relationship between stressful life events and the included outcome variables.

Conclusion: The results indicate that stressful life events as well as resources and acculturation hassles should be considered in measures to improve the adjustment of young refugees.

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生活压力事件与青少年难民的压力症状和幸福感之间的关系：移民后压力因素和保护性资源的调节作用？

研究目的本文重点研究年轻难民经历的生活压力事件与他们的心理和躯体压力症状及幸福感报告之间的关系。本文探讨了这种关系是否受个人和社会资源以及在东道国经历的文化适应问题的影响：方法：根据 147 名 11 至 18 岁中东青少年飞抵德国后的数据进行路径分析，以检验提出的中介模型：结果：经历过的生活压力事件类型的数量与当前的心理和躯体压力症状直接相关。与心理压力症状的关系部分受到在东道国文化中经历的文化适应问题的影响。幸福感与生活压力事件无关，但与可用的社会资源有显著关联。对文化适应困难的中介作用进行的仔细研究表明，歧视困难和社会文化适应困难是生活压力事件与结果变量之间关系的重要中介：结果表明，在采取措施改善年轻难民的适应情况时，应考虑到生活压力事件以及资源和文化适应方面的困难。

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Psychology & Health Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Psychology & Health promotes the study and application of psychological approaches to health and illness. The contents include work on psychological aspects of physical illness, treatment processes and recovery; psychosocial factors in the aetiology of physical illnesses; health attitudes and behaviour, including prevention; the individual-health care system interface particularly communication and psychologically-based interventions. The journal publishes original research, and accepts not only papers describing rigorous empirical work, including meta-analyses, but also those outlining new psychological approaches and interventions in health-related fields.