Social Capital: Understanding Acculturative Stress in the Canadian Iraqi–Christian Community.
This study examined how acculturative stress is influenced by social capital, age, income, education and gender in a sample of 326 Iraqi-Christians from southern Ontario, Canada. Both overall acculturative stress and its individual constructs were tested in a series of logistic regression models. Fi...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 694 - 714 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2014
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