Some predictors of migrant adaptation available at selection time

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Applicants for migration to Australia were interviewed in a study completely separate from the selection process. The 307 members of 96 families who actually immigrated were interviewed again approximately 3 years later. Their satisfactions with many aspects of their lives and their performances in several roles were assessed by a variety of methods. Adaptation was treated as a multi‐faceted process, and the immigrants were found to differ in level of adaptation from one area to another. The measures of subjective adaptation tended to be more highly intercorrelated than were the measures of role performance. Twenty‐six such measures of adaptation were related to 11 characteristics assessed on the pretest, yielding a number of different prediction patterns, depending on the outcome variable considered. The most generally useful predictors of adaptation were experience with diverse cultures, fluency in English, emotional health, socio‐economic status, optimism about prospects, (low) affiliative dependence, family solidarity, and interpersonal ties in the former community.

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