Immigration, Stress, and Readjustment

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Zeev Ben-Sira, Ben-Sira Zeev
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1997
• EAN: 9780275956325
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95632-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 482 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Israel, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Migration, immigration & emigration, Child & developmental psychology, Social and cultural history, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human biology, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Medical Anthropology, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Current Events and Issues: International