Mental health implications of migration: A review of mental health community studies on Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel

J Mirsky - Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Introduction Since late 1980s, 1,001,726 immigrants arrived in Israel from the
former Soviet Union (FSU). A review of community studies on the mental health of these …

Cultural transitions in first-generation immigrants: Acculturation of Soviet Jewish refugee adolescents and parents

D Birman, EJ Trickett - Journal of cross-cultural psychology, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
This article focuses on the process of acculturation for first-generation Soviet Jewish refugee
adolescents and their parents who have resettled in the United States. First, the extent of …

Acculturation and adaptation of Soviet Jewish refugee adolescents: Predictors of adjustment across life domains

D Birman, EJ Trickett, A Vinokurov - American journal of community …, 2002 - Springer
This study explores how acculturation is related to adaptation across different life spheres for
162 Soviet Jewish refugee adolescents in a suburban community in Maryland. Because the …

The interactive nature of acculturation: Perceived discrimination, acculturation attitudes and stress among young ethnic repatriates in Finland, Israel and Germany

I Jasinskaja-Lahti, K Liebkind, G Horenczyk… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
This study focused on young ethnic repatriates from the former Soviet Union in Finland (N=
170), Germany (N= 102) and Israel (N= 298). We studied whether the acculturation …

Acculturation and psychological well-being among immigrant adolescents in Finland: A comparative study of adolescents from different cultural backgrounds

K Liebkind, I Jasinskaja-Lahti - Journal of Adolescent …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated the effects of acculturation on the psychological well-being of
immigrant adolescents. The respondents were 11 to 20 years old, originally from the former …

Adolescents with Turkish background in Norway and Sweden: A comparative study of their psychological adaptation

E Virta, DL Sam, C Westin - Scandinavian journal of psychology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Using a questionnaire survey, this study compared psychological adaptation (self‐esteem,
life satisfaction, and mental health problems) of Turkish adolescents in Norway and Sweden …

A tale of two cities: Replication of a study on the acculturation and adaptation of immigrant adolescents from the former Soviet Union in a different community context

D Birman, E Trickett… - American journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
While a great deal of research has been conducted to understand acculturation and its
relationship to adaptation in the new country, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the …

Parents, teachers and peer relations as predictors of risk behaviors and mental well-being among immigrant and Israeli born adolescents

SD Walsh, Y Harel-Fisch, H Fogel-Grinvald - Social science & medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
This study examines the roles of parents (monitoring, involvement and support at school),
teachers (support) and peers (excess time spent with friends, peer rejection at school) in …

Immigrant adolescents behaving as culture brokers: A study of families from the former Soviet Union

CJ Jones, EJ Trickett - The Journal of social psychology, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
In immigrant families, culture brokering (CB) occurs when children mediate the new culture
for their family. The authors examined CB in Russian immigrant adolescent-mother dyads …

Perceived discrimination and psychological adjustment among Russian-speaking immigrant adolescents in Finland

I Jasinskaja-Lahti, K Liebkind - International Journal of psychology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Although it has been widely acknowledged that migration per se does not necessarily
compromise psychological adjustment among young immigrants (Aronowitz, 1984, 1992; …