Perceived discrimination, employability, and psychological well-being among Latin American immigrants in Chile
Research about immigrants’ psychological functioning emphasizes the negative impact of discrimination on psychological well-being. Although there is agreement about the relevance of job access to immigrants’ adjustment to host countries, employability’s effects on immigrants’ well-being have been sc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:journals.copmadrid.org:jwop/art/jwop2019a24 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.5093/jwop2019a24 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Immigration, Perceived discrimination, Employability, Psychological well-being. Inmigración, Discriminación percibida, Empleabilidad, Bienestar psicológico. |
| Sumario: | Research about immigrants’ psychological functioning emphasizes the negative impact of discrimination on psychological well-being. Although there is agreement about the relevance of job access to immigrants’ adjustment to host countries, employability’s effects on immigrants’ well-being have been scarcely studied. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between perceived discrimination, employability, and psychological well-being in a sample of 100 Latin-American immigrants settled in Chile. We aimed to determine the contribution of discrimination and employability on well-being’s explanation, and to establish the incidence of employability on the relation between discrimination and well-being. Perceived discrimination and employability explained the 31.5% of well-being’s variability, and employability mediated the relation between discrimination and well-being. Employability’s role as a psychosocial resource in a migratory context is discussed. |
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