THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NATURE OF YOUNG IMMIGRANTS’ WELL-BEING

Sara Alfieri (), Elena Marta () and Daniela Marzana ()
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Sara Alfieri: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Elena Marta: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology
Daniela Marzana: Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Department of Psychology, Brescia

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2016, vol. 124, issue 1, 21-40

Abstract: On arrival in a new country, migrants usually face language and cultural barriers, discrimination, and other sources of unjust contextual conditions, which limit their opportunities for a successful experience. This scenario compromises levels of well-being in the migrants and accentuates a tendency towards social fragmentation in the places of settlement. Therefore, the present work aims to investigate which factors can support young immigrants’ well-being in our country focusing on a set of demographic, psychological, and relationship with the context variables. There were 408 young immigrants participating in the research, aged between 19 and 29 years old (M = 24.08, SD = 2.89). The results show that life satisfaction of the immigrant is thus given by individual factors but in close connection with others and with the community, in a process that mutually reinforces oneself and the other, oneself and the community

Keywords: Subjective Well-being; Life Satisfaction; Young Immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D59 D63 F54 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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