Hintergrund: Ziel der Studie war es, den Einfluß von Stickstoffmonoxid (NO) auf die durch basischen Fibroblastenwachstumsfaktor (bFGF) induzierte Migration von bovinen, glatten Gefäßmuskelzellen (VSMC) in vitro zu untersuchen.
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Background: Proliferation and migration are the two main processes of intimal hyperplasia: the primary cause of intermediate and late vascular graft failure. Low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) inhibit these processes on vascular smooth muscle cells (...
Parent Questionnaire on the German Language Skills of Multilingual ChildrenThis article presents DaZ-E (Deutsch als Zweitsprache – Elternfragebogen/German as a second language – parent questionnaire), a newly developed questionnaire, available in ten ...
Extended Analyses of the Migration-Related gap in Reading Achievement – Differential Item Functioning Between Children with and without an Immigrant Background Based on the Progress of Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)School achievement studies show ...
Local Language or Mother Tongue? The Effect of Parental Language Usage on Their Children's Second Language AcquisitionAbstract. An increasing proportion of children grow up multilingually. However, the monolingual school ...
The role of academic motivation and personality traits in determining academic performance: Are there any differences when considering the migration background?Abstract. Based on the controversial debate regarding the ...
Recognition of foreign nurses degree in Germany – procedure, quantity, distribution and decision of applicationsAbstract. Background: Qualified foreign nurses are entering the German nursing-care system. Aim: How has the migration of nurses been ...
Migrant nurses from Vietnam – First experiences in the German long-term care sectorAbstract. Background: In 2012 a pilot project «recruiting qualified employees for the elderly care sector» commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and ...
The treatment needs of migrant children according to child and adolescent psychiatrists from medical clinics and in private practiceObjective: How does the German child and adolescent psychiatry system respond to the increasing number of migrant children ...
Die psychische Situation von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund ist bislang in Deutschland unzureichend erforscht und spezifische Angebote der psychotherapeutischen Versorgung entwickeln sich erst allmählich. Erste Informationen zum Gesundheitszustand ...
Migration ist ein Risikofaktor für Suizid und suizidales Verhalten, da Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund oft besonderen Belastungen ausgesetzt sind. Insbesondere junge Frauen weisen häufiger Suizid und suizidales Verhalten auf als gleichaltrige ...
Die Behandlung von Patienten mit Migrationshintergrund gewinnt im Kontext psychosomatischer Rehabilitation zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dabei stellt die Gruppe der türkischstämmigen Personen die größte Migrantengruppe dar. Erste Befunde weisen den Faktor ...
Psychotherapy and Migration – new challengesAbstract. Seven years after the first appearance of a special issue on psychotherapy and migration, the present issue focuses on new challenges concerning the refugee situation in Germany. Following the ...
Limited knowledge of the German language represents a serious barrier for migrants into Switzerland to communicate successfully in a variety of health care settings, which may result not just in delayed access to treatment and poorer outcome, but also in ...
Migration-Specific Issues of Patients of a University Emergency DepartmentAbstract. An increase in the utilization of Emergency Departments (ED) of hospitals can be observed. Due to the current wave of refugees, this topic is becoming more important. A ...
Abstract. This paper focuses on the provision of help and care to the older generation, comparing the situation of those in Estonia with migrant backgrounds to those with nonmigrant backgrounds. The empirical evidence suggests that, in the case of Estonia,...
Validation of the Turkish version of the Screening for Somatoform Disorders (SOMS)Turkish migrants use psychotherapeutic services mostly due to somatoform symptoms. For better objectification of those symptoms the screening for somatoform disorders (SOMS)...
Why Don’t We Ask Directly? An Analysis of the Subjective Perspective on Migration BackgroundAbstract. In Germany, the term ”person with a migration background” has been established in the field of research and federal statistics to assess the potential ...
Reserved Northerners, Jovial Southerners, and Open Urbanites: Regional Personality Differences in GermanyAbstract. The study and explanation of regional personality differences is a central research topic in geographical psychology. ...
Does Psychological Research Address Current Social Issues? A Scientometric Analysis of the Example of Refugees and Migration Using Topic ModelingAbstract. In the context of the scientific investigation of social challenges, and drawing on the example of ...
Zusammenfassung. Die Studie untersucht die Ausprägung homosexuellenfeindlicher Einstellung und ihre psychologischen Korrelate bei in Deutschland lebenden Jugendlichen mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund. Neben Jugendlichen ohne Migrationshintergrund ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Entwicklung von Deutsch als Zweitsprache bei vier- bis fünfjährigen türkischstämmigen Vorschulkindern (n = 88). Als Referenzgruppe dienen deutsche Vorschulkinder derselben Altersstufe (n = 95). Die ...German as a second language: Language development of Turkish immigrant pre-school-age children in GermanyAbstract. The study investigates the development of German as a second language (L2) among four- to five-year-old Turkish pre-school children (n = 88)...
Consumption of media violence and aggressive behavior: A longitudinal study of German adolescents with and without migration backgroundThe consumption of media violence and aggressive behavior were assessed three times in a sample of N = 1,052 German ...
Adolescent interpreters: Language brokering in Russian immigrant families in GermanyAdolescent immigrants often translate for their parents, a behavior referred to as language brokering (LB). This study aimed (1) to identify demographic, acculturation- ...
Abstract. Being perceived as a foreigner regardless of one’s generational status, citizenship, or self-identification is called foreigner objectification. This is a form of identity denial and is linked to psychological distress. To ...
Asylum seekers–Migration–Phenomenology: The Potential of Art Therapy from a Transcultural PerspectiveAbstract. This article presents essential findings from a qualitative empirical research project analyzing the ...
Zusammenfassung. Kognitiv-behaviorale Elterntrainings sind in Deutschland mehrfach in ihrer präventiven Wirksamkeit, Einsetzbarkeit und Akzeptanz kritisiert worden. Insbesondere wird angezweifelt, ob solche Elterntrainings auch die Bedürfnisse von Eltern ...
Conduct disorders in adolescents with an immigrant backgroundLarge-scale national survey have revealed an increased prevalence of aggressive behavior in adolescents with immigrant backgrounds. To date no studies have examined psychiatric health care ...
Migrant ChildrenAbstract. In this paper the term migration is defined and the living conditions of families with migrant background are examined. Demographic aspects und explanations for migration are presented. ...
The Impact of Migration Background and Psychiatric Disorders on Cognitive Achievement of a Pediatric Outpatient SampleAbstract. It is a frequently replicated finding that children with migrant background score low on intelligence tests. There is also a ...
Experiences With a Migration-Adapted Service in Case Management for Children and Adolescents in Need of Treatment After Child Abuse and NeglectAbstract. Children and adolescents who have suffered child abuse or ...
Challenges in the Flight Process of Unaccompanied Youths: A Developmental PerspectiveAbstract. Since late 2015, there has been an increase in publications on the psychological burden of refugees. Unaccompanied young refugees are ...
Abstract. The Department of Medical Psychology and Sociology at the University of Leipzig deals with a wide scope of scientific working fields. First of all, the conduction of representative surveys for the validation of psychometric instruments, the ...
What effect do acculturative processes have on perception? A study on the concepts of severe distress amongst migrants and non-migrants in LondonAbstract. Research regarding cultural differences in illness perceptions suggests that they may explain ...
Mental health and attitudes towards returning to the country of origin in refugees from former YugoslaviaAbstract.Background: Many refugees live for years in exile. The combination of stress in the host country, together with long-term effects of ...
Zusammenfassung.Theoretischer Hintergrund: Das psychische Belastungsniveau von Migranten wird seit einigen Jahren verstärkt diskutiert. Jugendliche der zweiten Einwanderergeneration sollten besondere ...
Der Beitrag untersucht anhand einer Stichprobe von 188 Kindern mit Migrationshintergrund im Alter von 3 – 5 Jahren der Längsschnittstudie BiKS-3 – 10, welche Bedeutung die Einstellung der Erzieherin zur Integration der Erstsprache in der Kindertagesstätte ...
Receptive Vocabulary and Grammar Competencies of Native-Born and Immigrant Children at Age 5 in Germany. An Empirical Study From a Sociological PerspectiveAbstract. From a sociological perspective, differences in the receptive vocabulary and grammar ...
German Language Skills of Children From Low-Status and High-Status Migration Groups. The Influence of Familial and Extrafamilial Language ContextsAbstract. The present study examined the importance of self-rated parental second language proficiency and ...
Measuring Attitudes About Multilinguism in German Preschools: Dimensioning a Multidimensional ConstructAbstract. This article is concerned with measuring the attitudes of preschool teachers in Germany about multilinguism. A four-dimensional instrument ...
Refugee Children in Different Preschool settings: Organizational Logic Meets Everyday PracticesAbstract. Due to global refugee and migratory movements, providers of preschool settings in Germany face the challenge of ...
Educational Disparities Right From the Start? Relevance of Structural and Procedural Variables for the Scientific Literacy of Preschool Children With and Without a Migration BackgroundAbstract. This study addressed ...
Abstract. Individuals differ in the extent to which they perceive threat imposed by out-groups like migrants. An established distinction in intergroup threat research is between symbolic and realistic threat. While symbolic threats concern ...
This paper reviews research on young migrants in Germany. Particular attention is given to the question of how Germany’s history of migration, immigration policies, and public attitude toward migrants influence the transcultural adaptation of children and ...
Abstract. One of the central debates in Ontological Security Studies (OSS) has been about the level-of-analysis. While some authors focus on individuals, others have scaled up the concept and applied it to collectives such as states as the ...
The effect of the intergroup climate on acculturation preferences among host-majority and immigrant group members has been long acknowledged in the acculturation literature. Only recently, however, research has started to directly examine the effect of ...
Abstract.Background: Young migrants face particular risks to develop mental health problems. Discrimination and social support impact mental health, yet little is known about the differential impact thereof on mental health in newcomers, ...
Migrants’ social remittances—ideas, ways of thinking, and social practices—may change families and communities of origin and drive sociopolitical development. From a small town in the northern highlands of ...
After relocation, refugees may experience significant difficulty adjusting to a host culture, and this difficulty may persist even after many years following resettlement. However, the influence of time on postmigration living difficulties (PMLD) and ...