Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road N, Mississauga, ON, L5L 1C6, Canada.
Department of Child Development, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA, 90747, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2019 Oct;50(5):846-855. doi: 10.1007/s10578-019-00887-4.
Pre- and post-migratory factors have been implicated in refugee children's mental health. However, findings regarding their unique and joint roles are inconsistent or nonexistent. We examined the main and interactive relations of pre-migratory life stressors and post-migratory daily hassles and routines to emotion regulation-a key marker of mental health-in 5- to 13-year-old Syrian refugee children (N = 103) resettling in Canada. Mothers and children completed questionnaires assessing pre-migratory life stressors and post-migratory daily hassles. Mothers also reported their children's adherence to family routines and emotion regulation abilities (i.e., anger and sadness regulation) via questionnaire. Overall, children who more frequently engaged in family routines showed better anger regulation. Pre- and post-migratory factors also interacted, such that greater post-migratory daily hassles were associated with worse sadness regulation for children with lower levels of pre-migratory life stressors, but were unassociated with the sadness regulation of children who experienced higher levels of pre-migratory life stressors. Results suggest that pre- and post-migratory factors play unique and joint roles in refugee children's emotion regulation during resettlement.
在移民前后的因素都与难民儿童的心理健康有关。然而，关于它们的独特和共同作用的发现是不一致的或不存在的。我们研究了 5 至 13 岁叙利亚难民儿童（N=103）在加拿大重新定居时，移民前的生活压力源和移民后的日常困难和常规与情绪调节（心理健康的关键标志）之间的主要和交互关系。母亲和孩子通过问卷评估了移民前的生活压力源和移民后的日常困难。母亲还通过问卷报告了他们孩子对家庭常规的遵守情况和情绪调节能力（即愤怒和悲伤调节）。总的来说，更频繁地参与家庭常规的孩子表现出更好的愤怒调节能力。移民前后的因素也存在相互作用，例如，对于生活压力源较低的儿童来说，更多的移民后日常困难与悲伤调节能力较差相关，而与经历更高水平移民前生活压力源的儿童的悲伤调节能力无关。结果表明，在重新安置期间，移民前后的因素在难民儿童的情绪调节中发挥着独特和共同的作用。
