Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
XVI. European Congress of Psychology (ECP), Moscow, Rusya, 2 - 05 Temmuz 2019, ss.1152
Migration may result
various levels of adaptation. Research has focused on stressors with a negative
impact on adaptation; thus group of migrants that maintain their new lives with
good psychological functioning have been dismissed. It is obvious that, certain
protective factors do facilitate positive adaptation and functioning in the
face of acculturation process. The purpose of this study is to expand
understanding of the protective factors of migrant women’s positive
psychological adaptation to the host environment. In order to reach that goal
we tested a hybrid model that is a combination of Acculturation (Berry, 1987)
and Resilience (Ungar, 2011) Theories. The current study offers a hypothesized
model that proposes direct effects between individual protective factors and
migrant women’s psychological functioning as well as indirect effects through
contextual protective factors. This two-level protective factor model includes;
women’s education level, socioeconomic status, immigration decision, perceived
cultural distance, and psychological resilience as individual level variables;
and the perceived social support and psychological functioning of the family as
contextual variables. The participants are 215 women (ages ranging from 20-60)
who migrated to three metropolitans of Turkey. Testing our hypotheses through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) showed an
acceptable fit for the theoretical model (χ2/df=1.59, p<.000, GFI=.92, CFI=.94, RMSEA=.05). The results demonstrated
that socioeconomic status (β=.17, p<.05),
immigration decision (β=.17, p<.05)
psychological resilience (β=.22, p<.005),
social support (β =.35, p<.005)
and psychological functioning of the family (β=.15, p<.05) directly predicted psychological functioning of migrant
women. Moreover, women’s education level (β=.07, p<.05) and psychological resilience (β=.02, p<.05) contributed to psychological adaptation through
psychological functioning of the family indirectly. Additionally, women’s
socioeconomic status (β=.10, p<.005)
and psychological resilience (β=.10, p<.005)
also contributed to the psychological adaptation through social support
indirectly. Findings indicate that personal factors do enhance psychological
adaptation of migrant women through contextual pathways. Interventions that
facilitate protective factors within family and the neighborhood may support
positive adaptation of migrant women.