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Bilingualism, School Achievement, and Mental Wellbeing: A Follow-up Study of Return Migrant Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2000

Lauri Vuorenkoski ,
Olli Kuure ,
Irma Moilanen ,
Varpu Penninkilampi  and
Antero Myhrman
Lauri Vuorenkoski
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
Olli Kuure
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
Irma Moilanen
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
Varpu Penninkilampi
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
Antero Myhrman
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Finland
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Abstract

In the first phase of this follow-up study we investigated how the use of more than one language affects mental wellbeing and school achievement among 320 school-aged Finnish-Swedish re-migrant children. Now, in the second phase, we screened the same series of children 6 years after migration for psychiatric and psychosomatic symptoms. Out of five groups distinguished in terms of patterns of language use, two had fared well and three showed evident vulnerability. Both successful groups were marked by consistent use of the two languages, Finnish and Swedish, whereas the risk groups were characterised by mixed use of languages before re-migration or substantial language shift after re-migration.

Keywords

Adolescencechild developmentdepressionlanguageschoolmigration
Type
Research Article
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The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , February 2000 , pp. 261 - 266
Copyright
© 2000 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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