Understanding the role of social support in trajectories of mental health symptoms for immigrant adolescents

Şirin, Selçuk R.; Gupta, Taveeshi; Ryce, Patrice; Katsiaficas, Dalal; Suárez‐Orozco, Carola; Rogers-Sirin, Lauren

doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2013.04.004

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“…The presence of social supportive relations before, during or after exposure to traumatic events has been identified as a consistent protective factor against developing and maintaining posttraumatic stress disorders PTSD (Brewin, Andrews & Valentine, 2004;Schnurr, Lunney & Sengupta, 2004). Such protective effects of social support have also been shown in relation to less pervasive stressors, such as daily hassles (Cohen & Wills, 1985;Sirin, Gupta, Ryce, Katsiaficas, Su arez-Orozco & Rogers-Sirin, 2013;Ystgaard, 1999).…”

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“…In short, knowledge about the quality of the relationships that unaccompanied refugees maintain to family and friends is important to understanding their post‐migration psychological adjustment. This is so because of the close relations between social support and mental health (Brewin et al ., ; Cohen & Wills, ), and because of the dynamics between social support and acculturation (Birman & Taylor‐Ritzler, ; Oppedal et al ., ; Sirin et al ., ).…”

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The role of social support in the acculturation and mental health of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers

Oppedal

Idsøe

2015

Scandinavian J Psychology

177

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There is a lack of knowledge about psychosocial resources that may sustain post-resettlement psychological adjustment among unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of social support from family abroad and friends on acculturation, discrimination, and mental health among these vulnerable children and youth. Questionnaire data were collected from a population-based multi-ethnic sample involving 895 unaccompanied minors resettled in municipalities in all regions of the country. They met in groups in their local communities. The informants were on average 18.6 years, and had an average length of stay in Norway of 3.5 years. The findings showed that the participants suffered from high levels of ongoing war related intrusive symptoms and depression. Still, at the same time they engaged in adaptation processes that are normative to youth with immigrant backgrounds, in terms of constructing supportive networks and developing culture competence. In accordance with the main effect hypothesis, social support had direct effects on depression and indirect effects by increasing culture competence that may aid the young refugees in dealing with discrimination. However, there were no effects of social support on symptoms of PTSD. The findings give direction to areas of interventions, beyond dealing with the sequel of the traumas the unaccompanied minors have been exposed to, not only for clinicians, but also social workers and school personnel.

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Section: Social Support and Mental Healthmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The role of social support in the acculturation and mental health of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers

Oppedal

Idsøe

2015

Scandinavian J Psychology

177

145

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“…In a school context CALD youth may receive social support from parents, peers, extended family, and school professionals such as teachers and school counsellors. Research on social support indicates that it predicts better social adjustment, lower levels of psychological stress, and fewer depressive symptoms (Crockett et al, ; Shochet, Dadds, Ham, & Montague, ; Shochet & Smith, ; Sirin et al, ). A recent study examined how sense of relatedness (parents, teachers, and peers) is associated with academic (e.g.…”

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The Role of School Connectedness and Social Support in the Acculturation in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth in Australia

Khawaja

Allan

Schweitzer

2018

Australian Psychologist

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Objective: The current study investigated the relationship of demographic and social ecology factors (social support and school connectedness) with acculturation of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) youth. Method: Participants comprised of 237 CALD youth, from migrant and refugee backgrounds, attending a specialised Australian school designed to address English language development and re-settlement needs of CALD youth. Results: Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that after controlling for demographic factors, school connectedness and social support explained a significant percentage of the variance. Conclusion: This study has implications for assisting CALD youth in schools. Findings highlight the need for further research exploring the modifiable factors that promote school connectedness and social support. Interventions and effective practices that enhance school connectedness and social support for CALD youth are identified as likely to contribute to successful acculturation.

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“…Social support has also been frequently linked with both cognitive (Pinquart & Sörensen, 2000;Young, 2006) and affective (Diener, Sandvik, & Pavot, 1991) measures of well-being, and has been found to mediate the effects of other variables, such as social network size and personality traits, on well-being (Zhu, Woo, Porter, & Brzezinski, 2013). Also in the context of acculturation, supportive relationships with both ethnic ingroup members and host nationals have been found to foster psychological well-being, even in the face of adversity, such as ethnic discrimination , Jasinskaja-Lahti, Liebkind, Jaakkola, & Reuter, 2006, Sirin et al, 2013. We expected social support to be positively associated with both Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem.…”

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The mixed blessings of migration: Life satisfaction and self‐esteem over the course of migration

Lönnqvist

Leikas

Mähönen

et al. 2015

Euro J Social Psych

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We investigated the psychological adaptation of Ingrian-Finnish migrants from Russia to Finland between 2008 and 2013. Pre-migration data (N = 225) were collected at the Finnish language courses that were part of the immigration training program. The three post-migration follow-ups were conducted half a year (N = 155), and 2 (N = 133) and 3 years (N = 85) after migration. Well-being was assessed with measures of Life Satisfaction and Self-Esteem. Life Satisfaction increased from pre-migration to the first postmigration measurement point, after which it stabilized. Self-Esteem decreased throughout the study. Variables reflecting adjustment to the event of migration (e.g., acculturation stress, socio-cultural adaptation) were primarily associated with well-being at the first post-migration measurement point. More general determinants of well-being (e.g., social support and subjective economic situation) were more consistently associated with well-being throughout the study. The results suggest that migration can be beneficial to some but detrimental to other types of well-being.

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Understanding the role of social support in trajectories of mental health symptoms for immigrant adolescents

Cited by 47 publications

References 53 publications

The role of social support in the acculturation and mental health of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers

The role of social support in the acculturation and mental health of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers

The Role of School Connectedness and Social Support in the Acculturation in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth in Australia

The mixed blessings of migration: Life satisfaction and self‐esteem over the course of migration

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