Acculturation Strategies of Ukrainian Students Studying in Poland and Their Well-Being

Abstract

For immigrants, the quality of their lives during migration is not the most important criterion for assessing their situation. It is important from the point of view of migration policy. The level of quality of life seems to depend on the use of options offered by the receiving country. The use of these options is probably a derivative of the migrant’s decision – an acculturation strategy. To examine this relationship among Ukrainian students studying in Poland, a study was conducted involving 132 respondents (K = 61%). For this, standardized questionnaires were used: the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF and the Acculturation Strategy Questionnaire. The results obtained by regression analysis indicate that there was an association between all acculturation strategies and the general index of sense of quality of life. Only the strategy of integration correlates positively with quality of life assessment, all other strategies show a negative relationship.