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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction--Immigration: A Stress-Precipitating Change
Immigration: A Paradox of a Simultaneously Desirable and Disillusioning Life Change
Immigration and Stress: A General Overview
Immigration and Readjustment
Integration
Demands, Stressors and Catalysts
Coping and Resources
An Empirical Model of Adjustment
Conclusion
Appendix A: Study Design
Appendix B: Composite Variables
Appendix C: The Concept of Stress
Appendix D: Methodology
Appendix E: Intercorrelations Among Components of the Readjustment Process: Veterans
Appendix F: Intercorrelations Among Components of the Readjustment Process: Immigrants
Bibliography
Über den Autor / die Autorin
ZEEV BEN-SIRA (1925-1996) was Chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Director of the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and for many years a Senior Research Associate at the Louis Gutman Israel Institute of Applied Social Research. He also served as a central committee member of the Israeli Sociological Association. In addition, he was Visiting Professor at Rutgers University, at Washington University in Seattle, and at UCLA's School of Public Health. He was the author of many papers and books, including Regression Stress and Readjustment in Aging (Praeger, 1991).
