Factors Shaping Occupational Injustice among Resettled Syrian Refugees in the United States

Table 2

Convergent construct validity of the items of the LDSR.

Item	Pearson’s correlation	Sig. (2-tailed)
Language barrier	.368	.000
Cultural differences and culture shock	.551	.000
Social segregation	.573	.000
Social injustice and discrimination	.543	.000
My qualification is underappreciated	.544	.000
Not being able to find appropriate work	.614	.000
Exploitation in work	.663	.000
Bad work conditions	.671	.000
Sense of time is distorted (seems longer or shorter than what it really is)	.458	.000
Poor access to medical care (emergency, long term, dentistry, or counseling services)	.443	.000
Poverty and poor help with welfare	.632	.000
Fears of being sent home	.432	.000
Separation from family and worries about them	.344	.000

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).