Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Integration of immigrants into a new culture is related to poor sleep quality | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Integration of immigrants into a new culture is related to poor sleep quality Ursula Voss 1 2 and InkaTuin3 Address 1Dept. of Psychology at the . Goethe-University Frankfurt M. Mertonstr. 17 60054 Frankfurt M. Germany 2Dept. of Cognitive Psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9 53111 Bonn Germany and 3Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany Email Ursula Voss -voss@ InkaTuin-Tuin@ Corresponding author Published 10 August 2008 Received 29 April 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 61 doi 1477-7525-6-61 Accepted 10 August 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 61 2008 Voss and Tuin licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background This article reports on the relationship between cultural influences on life style coping style and sleep in a sample of female Portuguese immigrants living in Germany. Sleep quality is known to be poorer in women than in men yet little is known about mediating psychological and sociological variables such as stress and coping with stressful life circumstances. Migration constitutes a particularly difficult life circumstance for women if it involves differing role conceptions in the country of origin and the emigrant country. Methods The study investigated sleep quality coping styles and level of integration in a sample of Portuguese N 48 and Moroccan N 64 immigrant women who took part in a structured personal interview. Results Sleep quality was poor in 54 of Portuguese and 39 of Moroccan women which strongly
