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- Title
Life Satisfaction among Unaccompanied Refugee Minors: Associations with Traumatic Events and Daily Hassles.
- Authors
Solhaug, Anne Kristine; Oppedal, Brit; Røysamb, Espen; Calam, Rachel
- Abstract
While there is a growing literature about mental health problems among unaccompanied asylum-seeking and refugee minors (URMs), far less is known about their wellbeing. Such information is important as a subjective sense of wellbeing is associated with a variety of positive health and psychosocial outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine life satisfaction and the association with traumatic events, daily hassles, and asylum status among URMs in Norway. We collected self-report questionnaire data from URMs living in Norway (n = 173, 90.80% male, 71.1% from Afghanistan). Mean age was 16.62 (SD = 1.74) years, and they reported clinically relevant post-traumatic stress symptoms. We explored variation in life satisfaction, URM-specific daily hassles and traumatic events. We also investigated a mediation model, in which we assumed that daily hassles mediated the association between traumatic events and life satisfaction. The participants reported low life satisfaction (M = 4.28, SD = 2.90, 0–10 scale). A negative outcome of the asylum process and URM-specific daily hassles were associated with reduced life satisfaction. URM-specific daily hassles accounted for the relation between traumatic events and life satisfaction. The youth had been exposed to several traumatic events yet the effect of these on life satisfaction appeared indirect, via an increase in URM-specific daily hassles. Reducing the number of, or help URM cope with, URM-specific daily hassles may increase their life satisfaction.
- Subjects
AFGHANISTAN; NORWAY; POST-traumatic stress disorder; SELF-evaluation; SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGY of refugees; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; EMOTIONAL trauma; ADOLESCENCE
- Publication
Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 2024, Vol 17, Issue 2, p597
- ISSN
1936-1521
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40653-023-00579-1