La Influencia de las Expectativas Premigratorias en la Satisfacción Vital en Inmigrantes Latinoamericanas: El Papel del Apoyo Social y la Estabilidad Familiar

Abstract

The current research aimed to analyze the moderation effect of marital satisfaction and social support in the relationship between premigratory expectative and vital satisfaction. In the study 81 Latin-American immigrant females who had regrouped their families. The results showed that both premigratory expectative and social support correlated with vital satisfaction. However, only marital satisfaction had a significant moderation effect, so this variable muffles the negative effect that non-realistic expectative have on vital satisfaction. These results can have practical implications from the viewpoint of psychotherapeutic work with immigrant people in the incoming country. Finally, limitations of the study are discussed and possible future research lines are proposed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)