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Marginality, Modernity, and Anxiety in Indochinese Refugees
Robert Smither
Johns Hopkins University
Marta Rodriguez-Giegling
San Francisco State University
Indochinese refugees to the United States face major psychological adjustments to a modern, industrialized society. This exploratory study measures marginality, modernity, and anxiety in a group of Vietnamese and Laotian refugees. As predicted, the refugees score higher in marginality and anxiety and lower in modernity than a random sample of Americans. A negative relationship is found for marginality and anxiety for the Laotians, and no significant relationship between these two variables is found for the Vietnamese. On the other hand, a positive relationship between anxiety and marginality was found for the American sample. These findings question the relevance of the concept of marginality when studying the psychological states of refugees.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 10, No. 4,
469-478 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/0022022179104006
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