Julia Mirsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77223 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Julia Mirsky |
| NOMBRES | Julia |
| APELLIDO | Mirsky |
| FIRMA | MIRSKY J |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8349-1412 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Returns and beyond
In recent years, migration to and from Israel has returned to the centre of public debate, once again becoming a buzzword in a moment of crisis. The war that followed October 7, together with a broader climate of social and political uncertainty, has made exit newly salient in Israeli public life, much as it did in earlier periods of upheaval. Jewish immigration, deemed Aliyah, has always been constitutive of Zionist and Israeli history. Early mi…
Loss, Obligation, and Recovery
Despite the high prevalence of mental health problems among immigrants in many Western countries, little is known about how they or their family members perceive their immigration and adaptation processes. This qualitative article provides a retrospective investigation of immigration perceptions of families from the former Soviet Union in Israel who care for a relative with severe mental illness. Through holistic analysis of in-depth semi-structu…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Israel, accounting for changes, developments and contemporary debates. The different chapters offer both a historical background and an updated analysis of politics, economy, society and culture. Across five sections, a multi-disciplinary group of experts, including sociologists, political scientists, historians and social scientists, engage in a wide variety of topics through diffe…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
Mental Pain Among Female Suicide Attempt Survivors in Israel
Interplay of identities
This study explored the self-perceptions of individuals with mental illness who immigrated from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. In particular, we examined the double stigma borne by these individuals as new immigrants and psychiatric patients, which may threaten their identity and render them at risk for social marginalization. We interviewed 12 FSU immigrants diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI), who had been hospitalized in psych…
Return migration of Americans
Immigrant Families
The study examined the association between immigrants' adaptation-as reflected by host-country language proficiency (based on self-ratings)-and their children's psychological well-being in two countries: Germany and Israel. The findings stressed the importance of children's gender in the study of parent-child dyads. Our separate analyses of boys' and girls' subsamples revealed results that were undetected when we analyzed the subsamples of both g…
Food Insecurity and Mental Health
The Impact of Familial and Environmental Factors on the Adjustment of Immigrants
This study examined the impact of family interaction, perceived discrimination, stressful life events, and the hosting country on the adjustment of Israeli and German immigrants. Results show that changes in self-esteem between the 1st year of immigration and 2 and 4 years later were significantly related to family relations: the better the functioning, the greater the improvement. The patterns of relationships in the family, however, only partia…
Post-migratory milieu and the wellbeing of adolescent immigrants
Viewed from a psychoanalytic-developmental perspective, migration recaptures separation individuation conflicts and therefore may hinder or facilitate the personal development of adolescents. One of the factors that determine the outcome of migration in adolescents is the post-migratory milieu. The focus of this study is on an educational-residential program for unaccompanied adolescent immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel that provi…
Social participation and psychological distress among immigrants from the former Soviet Union
English The adaptation of immigrants to Israel and to Germany is compared. While in Germany immigrants were oriented towards the general society, in Israel they tended towards less social participation. Adolescent immigrants in Israel reported more stress than did their German peers, but no differences in the psychological stress were found among their parents. French Cette é tude compare la façon dont des immigrants en Israë l et en Allemagne se…
Psychological Wellness and Distress among Recent Immigrants
Findings regarding immigrants' psychological wellness and distress are contradictory. Some studies find elevated levels of distress among immigrants, others failed to demonstrate such reactions. We suggest that such inconsistencies may be the result of loose time definitions in immigration studies. It is hypothesized that immigrants enjoy relative psychological wellness in the initial stages after their arrival in the host country (the first 12–1…
The Growth-Facilitating Effect of Host Families on Unaccompanied Adolescent Immigrants
Ethnicity Versus Migration
Study background and aims: This study investigates the psychosocial adjustment of immigrant adolescents and examines two hypotheses: the ethnicity hypothesis, which suggests that ethnic background determines the psychosocial reactions of immigrant adolescents; and the migration hypothesis, which suggests that the migration experience determines such reactions. Methods: The study compared four groups of respondents: first-generation immigrants ( N…
Overcoming the barriers
Voluntary organisations and volunteer action are new pheno-mena in post-Soviet Russia. Despite growing needs, cultural and socio-economic barriers preclude their massive development. This is a report on a case study of a volunteer programme that succeeded in overcoming these barriers, and in recruiting large numbers of volunteers. Characteristics of the volunteers and organisational conditions that enabled this success were identified and lessons…
Special Reviewers
Preparing adolescents for immigration
Job Security and the Perception of Unemployment among Immigrants
The article studies the occupational security and the perception of the economic situation of Russian immigrants in Israel and other Israelis. Similar rates of job security were found in the two groups. It is suggested that cultural factors and policies of integration of immigrants into the labor force affect these .ndings
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Social support and psychological distress among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel
Psychological Independence Among Immigrant Adolescents from the Former Soviet Union
Numerous descriptive accounts suggest that Soviet society and child-rearing practices encourage more psychological dependency than do western practices. The present study attempted to test this hypothesis. Participants were 560 university students (250 females and 310 males) who immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) between 1989 and 1994. Subjects completed the Psychological Separation Inventory, a standard measure of psychologi…
Psychological Distress among Immigrant Adolescents
Studies investigating the effects of immigration on the psychological wellbeing of adolescents have produced variable and inconclusive results: some identify immigrant adolescents as a group of risk whereas others fail to demonstrate higher psychological distress in this group of adolescents. It is suggested in the present paper that cultural factors active in specific ethnic groups of immigrants may in part account for this inconsistency. The pr…
Psychological Distress among Immigrant Adolescents
Studies investigating the effects of immigration on the psychological wellbeing of adolescents have produced variable and inconclusive results: some identify immigrant adolescents as a group of risk whereas others fail to demonstrate higher psychological distress in this group of adolescents. It is suggested in the present paper that cultural factors active in specific ethnic groups of immigrants may in part account for this inconsistency. The pr…
The Impact of Familial and Environmental Factors on the Adjustment of Immigrants
This study examined the impact of family interaction, perceived discrimination, stressful life events, and the hosting country on the adjustment of Israeli and German immigrants. Results show that changes in self-esteem between the 1st year of immigration and 2 and 4 years later were significantly related to family relations: the better the functioning, the greater the improvement. The patterns of relationships in the family, however, only partia…
Social support and psychological distress among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel
Psychological Wellness and Distress among Recent Immigrants
Findings regarding immigrants' psychological wellness and distress are contradictory. Some studies find elevated levels of distress among immigrants, others failed to demonstrate such reactions. We suggest that such inconsistencies may be the result of loose time definitions in immigration studies. It is hypothesized that immigrants enjoy relative psychological wellness in the initial stages after their arrival in the host country (the first 12–1…
Psychological Independence Among Immigrant Adolescents from the Former Soviet Union
Numerous descriptive accounts suggest that Soviet society and child-rearing practices encourage more psychological dependency than do western practices. The present study attempted to test this hypothesis. Participants were 560 university students (250 females and 310 males) who immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) between 1989 and 1994. Subjects completed the Psychological Separation Inventory, a standard measure of psychologi…
Return migration of Americans
Interplay of identities
This study explored the self-perceptions of individuals with mental illness who immigrated from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. In particular, we examined the double stigma borne by these individuals as new immigrants and psychiatric patients, which may threaten their identity and render them at risk for social marginalization. We interviewed 12 FSU immigrants diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI), who had been hospitalized in psych…
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Immigrant Families
The study examined the association between immigrants' adaptation-as reflected by host-country language proficiency (based on self-ratings)-and their children's psychological well-being in two countries: Germany and Israel. The findings stressed the importance of children's gender in the study of parent-child dyads. Our separate analyses of boys' and girls' subsamples revealed results that were undetected when we analyzed the subsamples of both g…
Food Insecurity and Mental Health
Social participation and psychological distress among immigrants from the former Soviet Union
English The adaptation of immigrants to Israel and to Germany is compared. While in Germany immigrants were oriented towards the general society, in Israel they tended towards less social participation. Adolescent immigrants in Israel reported more stress than did their German peers, but no differences in the psychological stress were found among their parents. French Cette é tude compare la façon dont des immigrants en Israë l et en Allemagne se…
Preparing adolescents for immigration
Job Security and the Perception of Unemployment among Immigrants
The article studies the occupational security and the perception of the economic situation of Russian immigrants in Israel and other Israelis. Similar rates of job security were found in the two groups. It is suggested that cultural factors and policies of integration of immigrants into the labor force affect these .ndings
Psychological Distress among Immigrant Adolescents
Studies investigating the effects of immigration on the psychological wellbeing of adolescents have produced variable and inconclusive results: some identify immigrant adolescents as a group of risk whereas others fail to demonstrate higher psychological distress in this group of adolescents. It is suggested in the present paper that cultural factors active in specific ethnic groups of immigrants may in part account for this inconsistency. The pr…
Psychological Independence Among Immigrant Adolescents from the Former Soviet Union
Numerous descriptive accounts suggest that Soviet society and child-rearing practices encourage more psychological dependency than do western practices. The present study attempted to test this hypothesis. Participants were 560 university students (250 females and 310 males) who immigrated to Israel from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) between 1989 and 1994. Subjects completed the Psychological Separation Inventory, a standard measure of psychologi…
Social support and psychological distress among young immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel
Preparing adolescents for immigration
Job Security and the Perception of Unemployment among Immigrants
The article studies the occupational security and the perception of the economic situation of Russian immigrants in Israel and other Israelis. Similar rates of job security were found in the two groups. It is suggested that cultural factors and policies of integration of immigrants into the labor force affect these .ndings
Social Support Networks and Loneliness Among Elderly Jews in Russia and Ukraine
The collapse of the Soviet Union had devastating consequences for the lives of its population, especially for older adults, many of whom became impoverished and were left with no social support. Using data from a survey of 2,579 elderly Jews in two of the largest countries of the former Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine, we examine variables that affect their feeling of loneliness. Unmarried and childless elderly persons reported the highest feeli…
Overcoming the barriers
Voluntary organisations and volunteer action are new pheno-mena in post-Soviet Russia. Despite growing needs, cultural and socio-economic barriers preclude their massive development. This is a report on a case study of a volunteer programme that succeeded in overcoming these barriers, and in recruiting large numbers of volunteers. Characteristics of the volunteers and organisational conditions that enabled this success were identified and lessons…
Special Reviewers
Ethnicity Versus Migration
Study background and aims: This study investigates the psychosocial adjustment of immigrant adolescents and examines two hypotheses: the ethnicity hypothesis, which suggests that ethnic background determines the psychosocial reactions of immigrant adolescents; and the migration hypothesis, which suggests that the migration experience determines such reactions. Methods: The study compared four groups of respondents: first-generation immigrants ( N…
Post-migratory milieu and the wellbeing of adolescent immigrants
Viewed from a psychoanalytic-developmental perspective, migration recaptures separation individuation conflicts and therefore may hinder or facilitate the personal development of adolescents. One of the factors that determine the outcome of migration in adolescents is the post-migratory milieu. The focus of this study is on an educational-residential program for unaccompanied adolescent immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel that provi…
Social participation and psychological distress among immigrants from the former Soviet Union
English The adaptation of immigrants to Israel and to Germany is compared. While in Germany immigrants were oriented towards the general society, in Israel they tended towards less social participation. Adolescent immigrants in Israel reported more stress than did their German peers, but no differences in the psychological stress were found among their parents. French Cette é tude compare la façon dont des immigrants en Israë l et en Allemagne se…
Psychological Wellness and Distress among Recent Immigrants
Findings regarding immigrants' psychological wellness and distress are contradictory. Some studies find elevated levels of distress among immigrants, others failed to demonstrate such reactions. We suggest that such inconsistencies may be the result of loose time definitions in immigration studies. It is hypothesized that immigrants enjoy relative psychological wellness in the initial stages after their arrival in the host country (the first 12–1…
The Growth-Facilitating Effect of Host Families on Unaccompanied Adolescent Immigrants
The Impact of Familial and Environmental Factors on the Adjustment of Immigrants
This study examined the impact of family interaction, perceived discrimination, stressful life events, and the hosting country on the adjustment of Israeli and German immigrants. Results show that changes in self-esteem between the 1st year of immigration and 2 and 4 years later were significantly related to family relations: the better the functioning, the greater the improvement. The patterns of relationships in the family, however, only partia…
Food Insecurity and Mental Health
Return migration of Americans
Immigrant Families
The study examined the association between immigrants' adaptation-as reflected by host-country language proficiency (based on self-ratings)-and their children's psychological well-being in two countries: Germany and Israel. The findings stressed the importance of children's gender in the study of parent-child dyads. Our separate analyses of boys' and girls' subsamples revealed results that were undetected when we analyzed the subsamples of both g…
Mental Pain Among Female Suicide Attempt Survivors in Israel
Interplay of identities
This study explored the self-perceptions of individuals with mental illness who immigrated from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Israel. In particular, we examined the double stigma borne by these individuals as new immigrants and psychiatric patients, which may threaten their identity and render them at risk for social marginalization. We interviewed 12 FSU immigrants diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI), who had been hospitalized in psych…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Israel, accounting for changes, developments and contemporary debates. The different chapters offer both a historical background and an updated analysis of politics, economy, society and culture. Across five sections, a multi-disciplinary group of experts, including sociologists, political scientists, historians and social scientists, engage in a wide variety of topics through diffe…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
Loss, Obligation, and Recovery
Despite the high prevalence of mental health problems among immigrants in many Western countries, little is known about how they or their family members perceive their immigration and adaptation processes. This qualitative article provides a retrospective investigation of immigration perceptions of families from the former Soviet Union in Israel who care for a relative with severe mental illness. Through holistic analysis of in-depth semi-structu…
Returns and beyond
In recent years, migration to and from Israel has returned to the centre of public debate, once again becoming a buzzword in a moment of crisis. The war that followed October 7, together with a broader climate of social and political uncertainty, has made exit newly salient in Israeli public life, much as it did in earlier periods of upheaval. Jewish immigration, deemed Aliyah, has always been constitutive of Zionist and Israeli history. Early mi…
Psychology (17 obras) · Immigration (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (13 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (10 obras) · Mental health (9 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Clinical Psychology (7 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras)