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P01-340 - Acculturation, Acculturative Stress and Psychosocial Well-being in the Hospitalized Immigrant Patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

H.-W. Revollo
Affiliation:
Transcultural Psychiatry Program, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
A. Qureshi
Affiliation:
Transcultural Psychiatry Program, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
F. Collazos
Affiliation:
Transcultural Psychiatry Program, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
M.D.M. Ramos
Affiliation:
Transcultural Psychiatry Program, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
P. Martinena
Affiliation:
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
M. Casas
Affiliation:
Transcultural Psychiatry Program, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

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Objectives

There is no direct relationship between migration and mental health, certain risk (e.g. acculturative stress) and protective factors of psychosocial well-being are inversely related with psychopathology. Acculturation strategies have been found to be related to psychopathology however this relationship has been minimaly examined with psychosocial well-being. The objectives of this study are to examine the relationship between acculturative stress, acculturation, and psychosocial well-being.

Methods

The sample consists of 150 immigrant inpatients hospitalized in tertiary care between 18 and 65 years of age. Acculturative stress, acculturation, social adaptation, anxiety and depression, as well as sociodemogrpahic and attitudinal items were evaluated.

Results

With general health situation controlled, the study found a negative relationship between acculturative stress and psychosocial well-being, as well as between the marginalization acculturation strategy and psychosocial well-being. A relationship was found between acculturation strategies and acculturative stress. There is no positive relationship between the integration acculturation strategy and psychosocial well-being, although the majority of the study participants preferred integration, followed by assimilation. The latter is associated with lower levels of acculturative stress and higher psychosocial well-being. Separation, on the other hand, is associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression, and with a higher quality of life.

Conclusions

None of the acculturation strategies demonstrates a clear advantage in relation to psychosocial well-being, however, marginalization appears to be the least adaptive. It may be useful to revise the notion of what constitutes the most adaptive acculturation strategy for an individual, taking into account his or her psychosocial well-being.

Type
Cultural psychiatry
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2010
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