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Problems of Investigation of Immigrants’ Students and their Relation to Psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

S. Kotrotsiou ,
E. Tsoumani ,
E. Kotrotsiou ,
M. Gouva ,
E. Dragioti  and
T. Paralikas
S. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate Program in Mental Health-Research Laboratory of Care, Larissa, Greece
E. Tsoumani
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate Program in Mental Health, Larissa, Greece
E. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate Program in Mental Health-Research Laboratory of Care, Larissa, Greece
M. Gouva
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences of Epirus, Nursing-Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, Ioannina, Greece
E. Dragioti
Affiliation:
Linköping University, Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping, Sweden
T. Paralikas
Affiliation:
University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, Nursing-Postgraduate Program in Mental Health-Research Laboratory of Care, Larissa, Greece

Abstract

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Introduction

The purpose of this research was to investigate the problems of first-generation immigrant students and the linkage of these problems with the psychopathology of students.

Objectives

The sample of this study included men and women students, that were second-generation immigrants aged from 18 to > 25 years.

Methods

The research tools used were: (a) Psychopathology Scale (Symptom Checklist 90-R - SCL-90) and (b) State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), (c) the orientation test life (LOT-R) d) Other As Shamer Scale (OAS), (e) Experience of Shame Scale (ESS). The statistical processing of data showedQ (a) the students immigrants have higher levels of student migrants stairways: inferior (OAS), empty (OAS), (Mistakes (OAS), Total internal shame (ESS), characterological shame (ESS), behavioral shame (ESS), bodily shame (ESS), Trait Anxiety (STAI), Somatization (SCL-90), Inter. Sensitivity (SCL-90) and Depression (SCL-90).

Results

The results of our study found high levels of psychopathology students immigrants and students migrant and interpretative this finding is explained by the lifestyle of their parents immigrants and different cultures which have to cope and adapt and their marginalization from society and official institutions, a situation that results in their exposure to a variety of risks to their mental health.

Conclusions

In addition to increased levels of psychopathology, second generation immigrants such as students and the students in our sample suffer from violence the authorities and their fellow citizens.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Migration and mental health of immigrants
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S624
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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