Determinanti psicosociali del processo di integrazione di adolescenti immigrati residenti in Italia

Introduzione L’incremento dei flussi migratori comporta l’esigenza di studiare i processi che moderano le relazioni interculturali nel corso dello sviluppo per prevenire conflitti e forme di disadattamento. Da un punto di vista psicologico, l’integrazione e il benessere psicosociale degli immigrati sono influenzati, sin dall’adolescenza, da variabili quali le strategie di acculturazione, l’identità etnica e la discriminazione percepita, oltre che dall’atteggiamento verso l’immigrazione del gruppo maggioritario in termini di tolleranza e ideologia multiculturale (Berry et al., 2006; Musso et al., 2011). Obiettivi e metodi Il presente studio si focalizza su adolescenti residenti in Italia, im…

Psychosocial adjustment and quality of intergroup relations among immigrant adolescents in Sicily: From elaborating explanatory models to identifying strategies to foster mutual intercultural communal life.

Immigrant and Autochthonous Young Adults in Italy: Intercultural Profiles, Psychosocial Adjustment and Mutual Attitudes

In the last two decades, Italy had to deal with a rapid immigrant population increase. This change in “plural” society is characterized by deep-rooted disagreements that sometimes are even source of conflicts. For these reasons, there is the need to foster the scientific research in the field of intercultural relations in order to overcome conflicts among acculturating groups, especially during a period of economic recession characterized by a renewal in unemployment rates. From this perspective, both psychology of immigration and developmental psychology have begun to contribute to an understanding of those factors underlying the management of intercultural relations during life-course. Sp…