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Cross-national comparative study shows sociocultural adjustment buffers depression in Venezuelan crisis migrants, indicating receiving contexts shape post-migration mental health.
= 675). Venezuelans who relocated to Florida reported higher levels of sociocultural adjustment than those who migrated to Colombia, reflecting overall easier adjustment in Florida. Sociocultural adjustment was robustly and negatively associated with depressive symptoms, even when controlling for key migration-related stressors. We also found that sociocultural adjustment and migration-related stressors interact in their relationship to depressive symptoms, such that pre- and postmigration stressors are less connected to depressive symptoms among individuals who find their sociocultural environment relatively easy to adjust to. The findings contribute to crisis migration research by shedding light on how sociocultural adaptation varies significantly by receiving site and how it is associated with mental health, above and beyond the effects of key migration-related stressors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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