Psychological Homelessness and Enculturative Stress among US-Deported Salvadorans: A Preliminary Study with a Novel Approach

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Título: Psychological Homelessness and Enculturative Stress among US-Deported Salvadorans: A Preliminary Study with a Novel Approach
Autor/es: Negy, Charles | Reig-Ferrer, Abilio | Gaborit, Mauricio | Ferguson, Christopher J.
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Calidad de Vida, Bienestar Psicológico y Salud
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud
Palabras clave: Undocumented immigrants | Psychological homelessness | Enculturative stress | Maladaptive cognitions
Área/s de conocimiento: Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico
Fecha de publicación: dic-2014
Editor: Springer Science+Business Media New York
Cita bibliográfica: Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 2014, 16(6): 1278-1283. doi:10.1007/s10903-014-0006-y
Resumen: The purpose of this study was to examine the construct psychological homelessness—feelings of not belonging in one’s home country—within the context of deported Salvadorans’ enculturation to El Salvador. Participants (n = 66) who had been deported from the United States completed a set of questionnaires related to their deportation experience. Results indicated that deportees, in various degrees, experienced the phenomenon of psychological homelessness and enculturative stress related to living in El Salvador. As hypothesized, enculturative stress related to re-adapting to life in El Salvador significantly correlated with psychological homelessness after controlling for time spent in the United States, acculturation, and enculturation. Additional analyses revealed that maladaptive cognitions related to the deportation experience also predicted psychological homelessness. Our findings suggest psychological homelessness appears to be a valid construct and is experienced by many undocumented immigrants.
Patrocinador/es: This research was funded by a Fulbright grant (# 10-13049) to the first author.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/44431
ISSN: 1557-1912 (Print) | 1557-1920 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-014-0006-y
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-014-0006-y
Revisión científica: si
Versión del editor: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-014-0006-y
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