Two hundred male and female adolescents and their mothers, recent immigrants from the former USSR to Israel, completed the following behavioral and sociopsychological inventories: The Youth Self-Report and Child Behavioral Checklist, and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support and Immigration Related Stressors Scale. No gender differences were found with respect to behavioral problem self-ratings. The mothers' mean behavioral problems' rating was 1.6 times lower than that of the adolescents. The main factors influencing discrepancies between adolescents' and mothers' ratings were as follows: attitudes towards immigration, assessments of adjustment difficulties, relationships with Israeli peers, readiness to adopt Israeli cultural norms and duration of residence in Israel. Results are discussed with respect to the effects of immigration on the relationship between adolescent and mother ratings. © 1996 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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