Impact of Postmigration Living Difficulties on the Mental Health of Afghan Migrants Residing in Istanbul

Table 1

Descriptive statistics: continuous and categorical variables and dependent variables (psychological distress/ASCL) measured at bivariate level ().

Variables	(%)	⁢Psychological distress/ASCL		Statistic (, , or )	Sig. value
		M	SD
Age: M = 25.67, SD = 7.87	—	—	—		.600
Gender
Female	26 (16.7)	62.62	21.26		.507
Male	130 (83.3)	59.67	20.54
Marital status
Divorced, separated, widowed	7 (4.5)	67.17	25.32		.269
Never married	85 (54.8)	61.31	18.95
Married	63 (40.6)	56.97	21.18
Education
Less than high school	60 (38.9)	63.66	18.64		.110
High school	68 (44.2)	58.18	21.56
College and beyond	26 (16.9)	55.17	19.62
Family in Turkey
Yes	55 (35.3)	56.27	17.23		.089
No	101 (64.7)	62.14	22.04
Legal status
Asylum seeker	52 (32.9)	63.43	18.18		.162
Refugee	106 (67.1)	58.57	21.44
Years in Turkey: M = 2.55, SD = 3.31	—	—	—		.092
Employment status
Unemployed	118 (78.7)	63.91	19.85		.000
Employed	32 (21.3)	45.72	17.46
Income
Comfortable	38 (24.5)	45.66	17.37		.000
Not comfortable	117 (75.5)	64.84	19.53
Physical health: M = 10.49, SD = 4.21	—	—	—		.000
PMLDs: M = 48.65, SD = 22.70	—	—	—		.000

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