Keywords
migration
childhood
adolescence
acculturation
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Abstract
Acculturation stress has been strongly associated with the emergence of problems in people's health, mainly mental health. Despite its importance as a risk factor, its study has been carried out mainly in the adult population, with less research being carried out on the subject in the child and adolescent population. This research evaluates the psychometric properties of FEAC-IA, a questionnaire designed to evaluate the sources of stress due to acculturation. Data were collected from 401 schoolchildren between 8 and 18 years (M=12,4; SD=2,5). Reliability analysis and fit goodness indicators were performed for the evaluation of factorial structure models through exploratory structural equation analysis (MEEE) and confirmatory factor analysis (AFC). The questionnaire presents good indicators of goodness of fit for a three-factor model: longing and differences with the country of origin, adaptation in school, family and relationship with peers and experiences of discrimination (CFI=0.98; TLI= 0.976; RMSEA=0.052). The proposed scale can be an important contribution to collect inputs in the migrant children and youth population on the sources of stress, which allow the development of specific intervention plans.
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