Behavioural attitudes and the level of distress in the process of adaptation to the new society

• Published in: Stress and health Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 187 - 193
• Main Authors: Rotenberg, Vadim S., Kutsay, Sergey, Venger, Alexander
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.07.2001; Wiley
• Subjects: Behavior. Attitude; behavioural attitudes; Biological and medical sciences; distress; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; gender; immigration; life crisis; Personality. Affectivity; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social psychology; Stress; Asia; Israel; Social environment; Human; Russian; Immigrant; Attitude; Cultural environment; Sex; Social adjustment; Stereotype; Age; Ethnic group; Stress

There are no data of the relationships between the level of distress and the subject's behavioural attitudes. We have investigated these relationships on 201 subjects, 80 men and 121 women, after 5 years of emigration from the former USSR to Israel. The level of distress measured by using the T...