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ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2022

Mental Health of Refugee and Non-refugee Migrant Young People in European Secondary Education: The Role of Family Separation, Daily Material Stress and Perceived Discrimination in Resettlement.

Caroline Spaas, An Verelst, Ines Devlieger, Sanni Aalto, Arnfinn J Andersen, Natalie Durbeej, Per Kristian Hilden, Reeta Kankaanpää, Nina Langer Primdahl, Marianne Opaas and 10 more

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Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Racism-Related Experiences and Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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  13. Occupational Balance in Refugees: The Role of Well-Being, Participation, and Perceived Discrimination.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  14. Adolescents during wartime: Vulnerability-based profiles.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Caroline SpaasParenting and Special Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. caroline.spaas@kuleuven.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-6537
An VerelstCentre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Ines DevliegerDepartment of Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Sanni AaltoFaculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Arnfinn J AndersenNorwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, NKVTS, Oslo, Norway.
Natalie DurbeejChild Health and Parenting (CHAP), Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Per Kristian HildenNorwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, NKVTS, Oslo, Norway.
Reeta KankaanpääFaculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Nina Langer PrimdahlDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Marianne OpaasNorwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, NKVTS, Oslo, Norway.
Fatumo OsmanChild Health and Parenting (CHAP), Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Kirsi PeltonenFaculty of Social Sciences/Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Anna SarkadiChild Health and Parenting (CHAP), Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Morten SkovdalDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Signe Smith JervelundDepartment of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Emma SoyeSchool of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Charles WattersSchool of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Ilse DerluynCentre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Hilde ColpinSchool Psychology and Development in Context Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Lucia De HaeneParenting and Special Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Ghent University · BEKU Leuven · BENorwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies · NOTampere University · FIUniversity of Copenhagen · DKUppsala University · SEUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

Horizon 2020 754849
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While scholarly literature indicates that both refugee and non-refugee migrant young people display increased levels of psychosocial vulnerability, studies comparing the mental health of the two groups remain scarce. This study aims to further the existing evidence by examining refugee and non-refugee migrants' mental health, in relation to their migration history and resettlement conditions. The mental health of 883 refugee and 483 non-refugee migrants (mean age 15.41, range 11-24, 45.9% girls, average length of stay in the host country 3.75 years) in five European countries was studied in their relation to family separation, daily material stress and perceived discrimination in resettlement. All participants reported high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Family separation predicted post-trauma and internalizing behavioral difficulties only in refugees. Daily material stress related to lower levels of overall well-being in all participants, and higher levels of internalizing and externalizing behavioral difficulties in refugees. Perceived discrimination was associated with increased levels of mental health problems for refugees and non-refugee migrants. The relationship between perceived discrimination and post-traumatic stress symptoms in non-refugee migrants, together with the high levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms in this subsample, raises important questions on the nature of trauma exposure in non-refugee migrants, as well as the ways in which experiences of discrimination may interact with other traumatic stressors in predicting mental health.

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Family SeparationRefugeesTransients and MigrantsAdolescentChildFemaleHumansMaleMental HealthPerceived DiscriminationDaily material stressDiscriminationFamily separationMental healthMigrant youth and adolescentsRefugee youth and adolescents

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PMID34686949
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