Migration und psychische Störungen. Ein Vergleich von Kindern griechischer "Gastarbeiter" und deutschen Kindern in West-Berlin

Reports the methods used and results found in a child psychiatric epidemiological study involving Greek families living in West Berlin and a German control group. Although the guest worker families lived under more strained SES conditions than control families, children in the 2 groups performed about equally well at school. Psychiatric disorders were less common among the Greek children, whereas there were more symptoms of psychopathology among boys than girls in both groups. The lower rate of disorders of family functioning among the Greek families appeared to be the main determinant of the lower psychiatric morbidity among Greek children. Factors related to migration were relatively unimportant.