Psychological and social adjustment in refugee adolescents: The role of parents' and adolescents' friendships.

IF 3.4 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Epub Date: 2021-03-05 DOI:10.1002/cad.20395

Savaş Karataş, Elisabetta Crocetti, Seth J Schwartz, Monica Rubini

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Abstract

Friendships have important implications for adolescents' psychological and social adjustment. However, there is still limited evidence on how different same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships are formed and regarding their role in refugee adjustment. Therefore, the present study was designed to examine the interplay of parents' and adolescents' same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships with adolescents' own psychological and social adjustment among refugee adolescents. Participants were 208 Syrian refugees (71.2% female; M_age = 15.35, SD_age = 0.95) in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Findings indicated that refugee parents' same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships were positively related to their children's same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships. Moreover, parents' same-ethnic friendships were negatively linked with adolescents' social well-being, whereas parents' cross-ethnic friendships were positively related to adolescents' social well-being. Furthermore, adolescents' same-ethnic and cross-ethnic friendships were both positively related to adolescents' social well-being, and cross-ethnic friendships were also positively associated with psychological well-being. These findings suggest that adolescents' cross-ethnic friendships mediated the positive associations of parents' cross-ethnic friendships with adolescents' social and psychological well-being. Overall, our study provides novel insights into the protective roles of diverse friendships for refugee adolescents.

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难民青少年的心理和社会适应:父母和青少年友谊的作用。

友谊对青少年的心理和社会适应具有重要意义。然而，关于不同的同种族和跨种族友谊是如何形成的，以及它们在难民适应中的作用，证据仍然有限。因此，本研究旨在探讨难民青少年的父母和青少年的同种族和跨种族友谊与青少年自身的心理和社会适应的相互作用。参与者为208名叙利亚难民(71.2%为女性;Mage = 15.35, SDage = 0.95)，位于土耳其安纳托利亚东南部地区。结果表明，难民父母的同种族和跨种族友谊与其子女的同种族和跨种族友谊呈正相关。此外，父母的同种族友谊与青少年的社会幸福感呈负相关，而父母的跨种族友谊与青少年的社会幸福感呈正相关。此外，青少年的同民族和跨民族友谊与青少年的社会幸福感均呈正相关，跨民族友谊与青少年的心理幸福感也呈正相关。这些发现表明，青少年的跨民族友谊介导了父母的跨民族友谊与青少年的社会和心理健康的正相关。总的来说，我们的研究为不同的友谊对难民青少年的保护作用提供了新的见解。

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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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7.70

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期刊介绍： The mission of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in the field of child and adolescent development. Each issue focuses on a specific new direction or research topic, and is peer reviewed by experts on that topic. Any topic in the domain of child and adolescent development can be the focus of an issue. Topics can include social, cognitive, educational, emotional, biological, neuroscience, health, demographic, economical, and socio-cultural issues that bear on children and youth, as well as issues in research methodology and other domains. Topics that bridge across areas are encouraged, as well as those that are international in focus or deal with under-represented groups. The readership for the journal is primarily students, researchers, scholars, and social servants from fields such as psychology, sociology, education, social work, anthropology, neuroscience, and health. We welcome scholars with diverse methodological and epistemological orientations.