The Examination of the Relation Between Acculturation Stress and Mental Health: Kermanshah as a Case Study

The aim of this article is to examination of the relation between acculturation stress and mental health in the town of Kermanshah. Nowadays، many people hoping to improve their own or their children’s life to have their own country on moving other places. They may face with the problem of the immigrants’ integration in the new place and the problem of how they can adapt themselves to the new environmental and cultural circumstances. When migrants encounter with a new cultural circumstances that differente from the native cultural. Face with more probability in adaptation with new culture the process of adaptation is stressful for them and consequently lead to mental disorders. In this paper the survey method is used and data were collected through structured questionnaire from 400 migrants who were selected randomly. The current research employs factor analysis to verify constract validity and to determine reliability، choronbach alpha is used. To test the hypotheses، Pearson correlation coefficient and analysis of variance were employed. Multiple regression and path analysis were used to assess the research model. According to the research findings، there is a significant relationship between the immigrants’ mental health and acculturation stress (r= 0. 74)، acculturation in destination (r = 0. 11) and time stay (r = 0. 41). Regression results show that the five variables: acculturation stress (Beta= 0. 66)، acculturation in destimation (Beta=0. 18)، education (Beta= 0. 22)، and job conditions (Beta= 0. 095)، marital statuse (Beta= 0. 096) and job conditions (Beta= 0. 095). this variable explant 67 percent variation of dependent variable mental health (R² = 0. 67). In path analysis model، the five above-mentioned variable، have significant effect directly on dependent variable and other variable have an indirect effect on it.