Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain.
Am J Community Psychol. 2023 Jun;71(3-4):382-394. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12652. Epub 2023 Jan 18.
Community participation can be a potential strategy to increase the degree of the subjective wellbeing of immigrants within receiving societies. This study aims to analyze the relationship between immigrants' community participation and their subjective wellbeing, testing the two dimensions of sense of mattering (feeling valued and adding value) and psychological sense of community as potential mediators of this relationship. A total of 308 first-generation immigrants living in Northern Italy filled out a questionnaire (45.1% were members of a migrant community-based organization). We found that immigrants who are members of a migrant organization show a higher level of subjective wellbeing, sense of mattering, and psychological sense of community than those who are not members. We also found that the sense of adding value and the psychological sense of community serve as mediators of the relationship between community participation and subjective wellbeing. The findings suggest that active participation is positively related to immigrants' feeling useful and capable of contributing to society and their feeling of belonging, which, in turn, are positively related to their subjective wellbeing. Practical implications are presented, focusing on the need for generative social policies to move beyond the welfarist perspective in which immigrants only "receive" to embrace an active perspective in which immigrants can also "give."
社区参与可以成为一种增加移民在接受社会中主观幸福感的潜在策略。本研究旨在分析移民社区参与与主观幸福感之间的关系，检验有意义感（被重视感和价值感）和心理社区感这两个维度作为这种关系的潜在中介。共有 308 名居住在意大利北部的第一代移民填写了一份问卷（45.1%是移民社区组织的成员）。我们发现，与非成员相比，加入移民组织的移民表现出更高的主观幸福感、有意义感和心理社区感。我们还发现，价值感和心理社区感充当了社区参与和主观幸福感之间关系的中介。研究结果表明，积极参与与移民感到有用和有能力为社会做出贡献以及他们的归属感呈正相关，而归属感又与他们的主观幸福感呈正相关。提出了实际意义，重点关注需要有创造性的社会政策，超越将移民仅仅视为“接受者”的福利观点，转而采取移民也可以“给予”的积极观点。
