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Assesses the extent to which young Indochinese refugees in Finland are moving away from the values & culture of their parents, & to what extent this creates intergenerational conflicts & emotional stress. Interview data from 159 young refugees born in 1969-1976 & 1,212 of their parents/caregivers, suggest that the amount of self-reported anxiety & depression tend to increase in both generations with length of stay in Finland; symptoms are greater among females than males. Time in the resettlement country also clearly affects the ethnic self-perception of youth, but not that of adults, increasing generational strain & emotional stress. 7 Tables, 62 References. Adapted from the source document.

Abstract. In this study we tested an integrated model of the relationship between immigrants' linguistic acculturation, socioeconomic status (SES), perceived discrimination, social support networks, general health status, and psychological well-being. A nationwide adult probability sample (N = 2360) included Finnish repatriates and Russian and Estonian immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Russia, and Estonia. In the total sample, linguistic acculturation was directly and negatively related to psychological well-being. Increased acculturation also influenced well-being indirectly through an increase in perceived discrimination. Although acculturation also increased the use of ethnic and host support networks, the effect of these social support networks on well-being depended on the stress level. Particularly, the direct effect of acculturation on well-being disappeared and was instead mediated by social support networks when examining the more vulnerable subsamples of the study, i.e., women and those who perceived substantial discrimination. Higher levels of SES were linked to better well-being through increased health status. It was concluded that the acculturation process plays a dual role in psychological functioning and that it is important to ensure more directly not only immigrants' cultural but also their socioeconomic integration.

Cover; REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF IMMIGRANT YOUTH; Series Editors; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Organization of the Volume; Conclusions; REFERENCES; Part 1: WHO MIGRATES AND HOW DO THEY FARE?: Sociodemographic Perspectives; 1: Resources, Strengths, and Challenges for Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries; Introduction; The Eight Study Countries; The Origins of Children in Immigrant Families; The Importance of Children in Immigrant Families; The Integration and Inclusion of Immigrants; Two-Parent Families; Language.

AbstractVicarious contact has often been used for studying prejudice-reduction in school contexts due to its relatively accessible application through written or audiovisual portrayals of positive intergroup contact. However, these interventions may sometimes prove ineffective, thus restricting their ecological validity and independent use in education. To contribute to the understanding of factors that might facilitate or mitigate the efficacy of vicarious contact in reducing ethnic prejudice among adolescents, the present study tested for the moderating effect of anti-prejudice motivation and friends' outgroup attitudes. Participants were Finnish secondary school students (N = 334; M = 13.38 years, SD = 0.53; 48% female; 19% ethnic minority) allocated into cluster-randomized intervention (N = 149) and control (N = 185) groups. Participants in the intervention group took part in 4 × 45-min teacher-led intervention sessions. A pretest-posttest design was employed to assess the outgroup attitudes three weeks before the intervention and the follow-up two weeks after. The results showed that adolescents' intrinsic, but not extrinsic, anti-prejudice motivation and the pre-intervention attitudes of their reciprocal classroom friends positively predicted post-intervention attitudes towards people from different ethnic and cultural groups. However, only extrinsic motivation moderated the intervention effect as the results indicated the intervention to have a detrimental effect on outgroup attitudes among adolescents with less motivation to be non-prejudiced in order to gain social acceptance. This attitudinal backlash among adolescents less susceptible to the social influence of others implies that motivational aspects should not be overlooked when developing school-based intervention programs, especially when social norms are used as a mechanism of attitude change.