“…Socio-demographic variables that may act as protective factors among refugee youth include gender, age, education level, time passed since the trauma, and visa type (Fazel, Reed, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2012; Reed, Fazel, Jones, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2012). There is an emerging base of evidence, for example, that preadolescent and younger adolescent refugee children may experience fewer depressive symptoms than their older counterparts (Hasanović, Sinanović, & Pavlović, 2005). Similarly, girls appear to have a higher prevalence of internalising disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness (Bean, Eurelings-Bontekoe, & Spinhoven, 2007), whereas boys tend to display more externalising disorders, such as disruptive behaviours and oppositional trends (Mels, Derluyn, Broekaert, & Rosseel, 2010).…”