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Social participation and psychological distress among immigrants from the former Soviet Union

A comparative study in Israel and Germany

Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer Sheva, Israel, slonim{at}bgu.ac.il

Julia Mirsky

Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Bernhard Nauck

Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chemnitz University of Technology,Wilhelm-Raabe-Str. 43, D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany

Tamar Horowitz

Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

English

The adaptation of immigrants to Israel and to Germany is compared. While in Germany immigrants were oriented towards the general society, in Israel they tended towards less social participation. Adolescent immigrants in Israel reported more stress than did their German peers, but no differences in the psychological stress were found among their parents.

French

Cette é tude compare la façon dont des immigrants en Israë l et en Allemagne se sont adapté s. Il en ressort que les immigrants en Allemagne ont é té , de façon gé né rale, davantage inté gré s à la socié té comparativement aux immigrants en Israë l, qui tendent à être moins engagé s socialement. Les immigrants adolescents en Israë l font é tat d’un plus grand stress que leurs pairs en Allemagne, alors qu’on ne relè ve pas de diffé rences chez leurs parents respectifs.

Spanish

La adaptació n de los inmigrantes a Israel y Alemania es comparada. Mientras que en Alemania los inmigrantes se orientan hacia la sociedad en general, en Israel ellos tienden hacia una participació n social baja. Inmigrantes adolescentes en Israel reportaron má s estré s que sus contrapartes alemanes, pero no se encontraron diferencias en el estré s psicoló gico entre los parientes.

Key Words: adolescent stress • adult adaptation • immigration • psychological well-being • social participation

International Social Work, Vol. 50, No. 4, 473-488 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0020872807077908


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