Quality of life among Turkish immigrants in Sweden

Abstract

Turkish immigrants' quality of life perceptions were better than those of the Turkish sample. The best scores were received from the third generation. The first generation and female immigrants need attention in order to receive higher quality of life perceptions.

Correlates of Quality of Life in New Migrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China

“…Though previous studies have reported the correlations of immigrants’ age, sex and marital status with their QOL (Thoman and Surís 2004; Bayram et al 2007; Pantzer et al 2006; Zhang et al 2009) in both bivariate and multiple regression analyses, however, these correlations were not observed in this study. Although correlation was found between immigrants’ age and the environment domain of QOL, and between marital status with the overall QOL in bivariate analyses, these associations disappeared in the multiple regression analysis due to the crowding out effects.…”

“…Although our study samples reflect the real gender and marital status distribution of the immigrant population, the result of this study cannot be generalized to male immigrants, as well as single and married Chinese immigrants in Hong Kong. Since previous studies found that marital status associated with immigrants’ QOL (Zhang et al 2009; Bayram et al 2007), and QOL of male immigrants was found to be higher than that of females (Bayram et al 2007), therefore, studies of male immigrants and single Chinese new immigrants in Hong Kong must be conducted in the future so that these issues can be addressed.…”

“…The concept of “quality of life” (QOL) is gaining increasing attentions; however, no consensus on its definition has been reached yet (Bayram et al 2007; Chan et al 2006). Nevertheless, there is a considerable agreement among researchers that the concept QOL is multi-dimensional (Bayram et al 2007; Lowenstein and Katz 2005; Chan et al 2006; Lim et al 2008; van Servellen et al 2002) which includes physical (individuals’ perception of their physical state), psychological (individuals’ perception of their cognitive and affective state) and social (individuals’ perception of the interpersonal relationship and social roles in their life) dimensions (The WHOQOL Group 1995).…”

“…Increasing research is being conducted to address the question. Review of literatures indicate that immigrants’ QOL is correlated with a wide range of individual’s background characteristics, for example, age (Thoman and Surís 2004; Bayram et al 2007; Pantzer et al 2006), gender (Thoman and Surís 2004; Bayram et al 2007; Zhang et al 2009), marital status (Zhang et al 2009; Bayram et al 2007), education levels (van Servellen et al 2002; Zhang et al 2009), being at the low socioeconomic status (Pantzer et al 2006; van Servellen et al 2002; Thoman and Surís 2004) and psychosocial resources, such as perceived social support (Pantzer et al 2006; Lim et al 2008), optimism (O’Connell and Skevington 2005; Uskul and Greenglass 2005) and sense of control (Arruda et al 1992; Kreitler et al 2007; O’Connell and Skevington 2005). …”

Discrimination experience and quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China: the mediation effect of expectation–reality discrepancy

“…Although a review of the research literature on quality of life (QOL) indicated a lack of consensus over its operational definition and use of terminology [3], the concept of QOL is being used increasingly in behavior and clinical research to measure perceived well-being among various vulnerable populations, such as migrants, refugees, and various patients [1,2,5]. The term ''quality of life'' evolved from the constructs of life satisfaction and subjective well-being and represented the individual's overall satisfaction or happiness.…”