Prediction of adaptation difficulties by country of origin, cumulate psychosocial stressors and attitude toward integrating: A Swedish study of first-generation immigrants from Somalia, Vietnam and China.

Summary, in English

Different types of accumulated stress have been found to have negative consequences for immigrants' capacity to adapt to the new environment. It remains unclear which factors have the greatest influence.

• Author: Ewa Johnsson; Krystyna Zolkowska; Thomas McNeil
• Department/s: Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 174-182
• Publication/Series: International Journal of Social Psychiatry
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24927925?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020764014537639
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Topic: Environmental Health and Occupational Health
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1741-2854