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creators_name: Gintowt, Marta
title: Gender, Migration and Mental Health: Stress and coping strategies of first-generation female Polish migrants in The Netherlands
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: As an increasing amount of Polish women arrive to the Netherlands annually, gender related mental health among Polish migrants is still a subject not readily explored in a Dutch context.

Women are found to have different mental health experiences than men. Lazarus’s Transactional Model of Stress and Coping is used to formulate a framework for the research design.

This qualitative study explores the migratory stressors that Polish migrants face and their assessment of the stress, and their personal coping mechanisms of their stress. 12 in-depth interviews and photo elicitation were conducted to obtain experiences of stress and coping strategies related to migration to the Netherlands. 

Participants have experienced at least one or more of the following initial universal migratory stressors: stress with finding a job and housing, and stress due to lack of social support. Coping strategies were unique to the participant, but accessing social supports deemed most universal.
date: 2015
date_type: published
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: POPST
tutors_name: Bailey, A
keywords_local: migration
keywords_local: The Netherlands
keywords_local: Polish migrants
keywords_local: Gender, migration, and mental health
keywords_local: stress
keywords_local: coping
language_iso: en
titleorder: Gender, Migration and Mental Health: Stress and coping strategies of first-generation female Polish migrants in The Netherlands
dbi: 55d5cd308ab8e
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date_of_import: 2020-04-22
imported_from: http://scripties.frw.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/ma/PopSt/2015/mgintowt/
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date_issued: 2015-01-01
citation:   Gintowt, Marta  (2015) Gender, Migration and Mental Health: Stress and coping strategies of first-generation female Polish migrants in The Netherlands.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1126/1/GintowtMarta_Thesis.pdf