Henríquez Diego, Urzúa Alfonso, López-López Wilson
Universidad Católica del Norte, Avda. Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
J Int Migr Integr. 2022 Oct 18:1-23. doi: 10.1007/s12134-022-00996-5.
The present study provides evidence of how perceived social support is a mechanism by which identity fusion with the country of origin is associated with psychological well-being in a migrant population. The study design was cross-sectional. We use intentional sampling based on the accessibility of the participants and using the snowball strategy through an online survey. This study included 323 Venezuelan migrants, of whom 176 (54.5%) were women, all residents of the city of Santiago, Chile. The variables assessed were perceived social support, identity fusion, and psychological well-being. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the proposed mediation model. The estimation method used was robust weighted least squares estimation. The estimated models indicated that perceived social support has a mediating effect on the positive relationship between identity fusion and psychological well-being of Venezuelan migrants residing in Chile. According to these results, feeling a sense of fusion with the country of origin and the perception of having sources of care and protection are factors that may help to improve the psychological well-being of Venezuelan migrants living in Chile. Implications and limitations of these results are discussed.
本研究提供了证据，证明感知到的社会支持是一种机制，通过这种机制，与原籍国的身份融合与移民群体的心理健康相关。研究设计为横断面研究。我们基于参与者的可及性采用立意抽样，并通过在线调查使用滚雪球策略。本研究纳入了323名委内瑞拉移民，其中176名（54.5%）为女性，均为智利圣地亚哥市的居民。评估的变量包括感知到的社会支持、身份融合和心理健康。采用结构方程模型来估计所提出的中介模型。使用的估计方法是稳健加权最小二乘估计。估计模型表明，感知到的社会支持对居住在智利的委内瑞拉移民身份融合与心理健康之间的正向关系具有中介作用。根据这些结果，与原籍国的融合感以及拥有关怀和保护来源的感知是可能有助于改善居住在智利的委内瑞拉移民心理健康的因素。讨论了这些结果的意义和局限性。
