Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 35, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 393-404

Immigrant status and gender effects on psychopathology and self-concept in adolescents: A test of the migration-morbidity hypothesis (Article)

Klimidis S. , Stuart G. , Minas I.H.* , Ata A.W.
  • a Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Vic., Australia
  • b Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Vic., Australia
  • c Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Vic., Australia
  • d Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Vic., Australia

Abstract

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 selfconcept measures. Native-born Australians, Australianborn 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. © 1994.

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Index Keywords

anxiety statistical analysis rating scale depression immigrant refugee Australia demography human sex difference Refugees Self Report anxiety neurosis morbidity gender identity Mental Disorders Body Image mental disease Adolescent male Personality Development Acculturation female questionnaire self concept Article Support, Non-U.S. Gov't major clinical study Emigration and Immigration Social Perception Personal Satisfaction
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DOI: 10.1016/0010-440X(94)90281-X
ISSN: 0010440X
Cited by: 73
Original Language: English