Résultats de recherche

1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« The present study examined psychological functioning in a pediatric sample of children of immigrant parents as it pertained to acculturation style and social variables related to immigration. » (p. 112)

Questions/Hypothèses :
« It was hypothesized that integrated children and children of integrated parents would show less psychological dysfunction than would children and parents who had adapted a separation or marginalized acculturation style. It was also hypothesized that children who differed from their parents in acculturation style would display greater psychological dysfunction. » (p. 113)

2. Méthode

Matériau/Échantillon :
« The sample was recruited from a Montreal pediatric clinic with a multi-ethnic population. The pediactic group consisted of 23 obys and 25 girls aged 6.5-17 years. Eleven of the children has been born outside Canada […] and had emigrated between 1982 ans 1990. […] The parent group consisted of one parent from each of 34 families; 74 % mothers and 26% fathers [...]. Twenty-four of the families had one child, seven families had two children, two had three children, and one familiy had four children. » (p. 113)

Instrument :
- Scale based on the Bicultural Involvement Questionnaire (Szapocznik et al, 1980);
- Sociodemographic questionnaire;
- Revised Child Behavior Profile (Achenback + Edelbrock, 1983);
- Depression Self-Rating Scale (Birleson, 1981);
- What I Think and Feel Scale (Reynold + Richmond, 1978);
- Children’s Psychosomatic Symptom Checklist (Wisniewski, Nagliere + Mulick, 1988);
- Hare Self-Esteem Scale (Corcoran + Fisher, 1987).

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

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