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Kenyan Immigrants in the United States : Acculturation, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health

By Lilian Odera

Book information

Publisher
LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Year
2010
ISBN
9781593326517, 9781593324131
LCC
E184.K43 -- O34 2010eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
943 kB (965913 bytes)
Series
The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society
Edition
1
Pages
196\196
Time added
2023-08-03 20:24:30
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Description

Odera’s work yields rich data on Kenyan immigrants and reveals a highly educated group of foreign-born individuals. She adapts a multidimensional conceptual framework that combines both the stress-and-coping model of acculturation proposed by Berry (1980) and the sociocultural model proposed by Ward and Rana-Deuba (1999); both of which govern the relationship between acculturation and mental health. Findings indicate that Kenyan immigrants’ acculturation is determined by their gender, age, immigration status, duration of stay in the United States as well as their ties to Kenya. Acculturative stress is one of the main predictors of depressive symptoms and subjective health evaluation. Social support and religious coping styles are salient to Kenyan immigrants as they navigate American society.

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