Predictive variables of resilience in young Moroccan immigrant
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Predictive variables of resilience in young Moroccan immigrant David Sánchez-Teruel 1 & María Auxiliadora Robles-Bello 2 Accepted: 14 October 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The immigration of young people from Morocco has increased considerably in Spain. However, there are few studies on this particular subpopulation of immigrants. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of resilience in young immigrants and to determine what differences there were compared to the young non-immigrant population, analysing the sociodemographic and psychosocial variables that are most predictive of resilience in these young people from Morocco. The total sample comprised 326 young men (M = 19.63 years; SD = 1.13), 154 were Moroccan immigrants aged between 18 and 22 (M = 19.33; SD = 1.28) and 172 non-immigrant Spanish men aged between 18 and 23 (M = 20.1; SD = 1.06). The results showed a higher level of resilience in young immigrants than in young people from the general population, with negative inverse relationships in both samples between all the protective variables (optimism, hope, self-efficacy and social support) and anxiety and depression, and positive relationships with resilience. In addition, a predictive model of resilience in young Moroccan immigrants was found with adequate goodness of fit indices (R2adj = .81; F = 126.54; p < .001) made up of age, work, religion, hope, selfefficacy and social support. This study provides a useful characterization of resilience and vulnerability in young Moroccan immigrants. It is essential to promote the modulating factors that predict high levels of resilience in order to improve the early adaptation of this group to the destination country. Keywords Resilience . Young immigrants . Protective variables . Anxiety . Depression
Immigration is not a new phenomenon, but the large movement of people seen at the beginning of the twenty-first century has no historical precedent (Motti-Stefanidi and GarcíaColl 2018). Spain has become one of the ten main destination countries for international migratory flows (International Organization for Migration-IOM 2018), and immigration into Spain has increased exponentially in recent decades (Consejo Económico y Social-CES 2019). The most recently published data show that 40.50% (1,741,945) of the total immigrant population in Spain (4,300,723 people) are Moroccans, who make up the largest group of foreigners from non-EU areas (Instituto Nacional de Estadística-INE 2019). A quarter of Moroccan immigrants are concentrated in the south of the country (Andalusia) (142,033–22.95%), a significant proportion of whom are young men under 18 years of age
* María Auxiliadora Robles-Bello [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
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Department of Psychology, University of Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n, C5-223, 23071 Jaen, Spain
(Observatorio Permanente Andaluz de Migraciones-OPAM 2018). Immigration is an adverse situation that can produce high levels
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