رویکردهای نوین آموزشی (Sep 2010)
Study the relation between cultural methods of confronting and psychological health of migrant women: (case study: city of Kermanshah)
Abstract
One of the issues that nowadays immigrants and especially migrant women are faced with in destination community is their health. The main purpose of this research is to study relation between cultural methods of confronting and psychological health of migrant women. Research method was descriptive and research instrument was questionnaire. Statistical population of the study was migrant women in Kermanshah that 200 of them were selected randomly as sample. Face validity and chronbach alfa were used for reliability of research instrument, and regression analysis and Anova were used to test research hypothesis. Based on research findings there is significant relation between psychological health and variables of education (r=.77), duration of residing (r=.18), level of income (r=.75), rationality method (r=.77), avoidance method (r=.42), and emotional method (r=.61). Results of regression coeficients showed that three variables of rationality (Bata=.64), income (Beta=049) and emotional (Beta=028) were entered into equation and all together explain 47 percent variance of dependent variable (R2=.47). Finding of this research show this fact that if migrant people use more rationality model in confronting with psychological stresses due to migration to new cultural environment, they will have better health.
