Community coherence and acculturation strategies among refugee adolescents: How do they explain mental-health symptoms?

Background: Against the backdrop of 10 years of civil war in Syria, with millions of refugees, this study aimed to explore sense of community coherence and the acculturation strategies of separation and competition as factors that might explain mental-health problems among adolescent Syrian refugees in Greece.

Methods: Data were gathered from 173 adolescents aged 13-18 (M = 15.85; SD = 1.

Women in Refugee Camps: Which Coping Resources Help Them to Adapt?

The present study aimed to explore the coping resources and mental health of women who have fled Syria to a neighboring European country. To that end, we examined the roles of sociodemographic factors, situational factors, and personal and community sense of coherence (SOC and ComSOC, respectively) in mental-health outcomes. One hundred and eleven refugee women aged 19-70 filled out self-reported questionnaires during August 2018 in a refugee camp in Greece.

Analysis of the Differential Relationship between the Perception of One's Life and Coping Resources among Three Generations of Bedouin Women.

Bedouin society has undergone rapid changes over the past decade. The younger generation of Bedouin women is better educated, which has enabled them to enter different professions, increased their incomes and elevated their social status. We examined the sense of coherence (SOC) and its components of meaningfulness, manageability and comprehensibility as well as the use of coping strategies among Bedouin women from three age groups.

Shifts in Traditional Methods of Coping Among Elderly Bedouin Men.

Elderly Bedouin men in southern Israel are a unique traditional population living in remote unrecognized villages and experiencing rapid social transition, in addition to deep poverty and political tension. In this study, we aimed to explore stressful events, as self-defined by the participants, and the ways in which these men have coped with those stressful events. This study involved 12 men, aged 69⁻74, who participated in in-depth narrative interviews during which they were asked about transformative stressful events in their lives and how they had managed, understood, and utilized human capital, meaning-making, and other methods of coping.