Ponizovsky A, Ginath Y, Durst R, Wondimeneh B, Safro S, Minuchin-Itzigson S, Ritsner M
Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Unit, Talbieh Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 1998 Spring;44(1):35-45. doi: 10.1177/002076409804400104.
A community survey was conducted examining the differences in levels of psychological distress and its symptomatology, comparing 110 Ethiopian-Jewish and 400 Russian-Jewish immigrants to Israel. Psychological distress was measured by the Talbieh Brief Distress Inventory. Russian immigrants were found to be more distressed than their Ethiopian counterparts and this between-group difference can be attributed to the greater relative number of females, older immigrants and those with longer duration of stay in Israel in the Russian sample. The highest levels of distress were observed for paranoid ideation in the Ethiopian sample and anxiety and hostility in the Russian sample. These symptoms were independent of gender and time since immigration. Russians with longer duration of stay demonstrated higher scores signifying adjustment difficulties than their Ethiopian counterparts. These results suggest that the differences in levels and symptom expression of psychological distress are determined, to a considerable extent, by demographic factors (sex, age) and the differing cultural backgrounds of the two immigrant groups.
开展了一项社区调查，研究110名埃塞俄比亚犹太移民和400名俄罗斯犹太移民到以色列后的心理困扰水平及其症状差异。心理困扰通过塔尔比耶简易困扰量表进行测量。结果发现，俄罗斯移民比埃塞俄比亚移民的困扰程度更高，且两组之间的这种差异可归因于俄罗斯样本中女性、年龄较大的移民以及在以色列停留时间较长的移民相对数量更多。埃塞俄比亚样本中偏执观念的困扰水平最高，而俄罗斯样本中焦虑和敌意的困扰水平最高。这些症状与性别和移民后的时间无关。在以色列停留时间较长的俄罗斯人比埃塞俄比亚人表现出更高的得分，表明他们存在适应困难。这些结果表明，心理困扰水平和症状表现的差异在很大程度上由人口统计学因素（性别、年龄）以及两个移民群体不同的文化背景所决定。
