Styles of coping in a stressful situation, social support and psychological consequences in emigrants from the Netherlands

Emigration is an experience irrevocably associated with stress caused by leaving one’s family home, changing one’s social environment as well as living conditions, etc. The main aim of this study was to establish if and what correlations there are between different styles of coping with stress, social support and psychological consequences resulting from the emigration of a group of 96 Polish emigrants living in the Netherlands. The participants were clients of the Pomoc Nederland (the name reflects the company’s objective to help the Poles living in the Netherlands) company, aged from 31 to 5... Mehr ...