Written Questionnaire II. At-Home Feeling in the Ulpan in Relation to Other Variables. General Adjustment and Affiliation. A Temporary Community?

Abstract

In the following two chapters we turn to a discussion of the relations found between the two dependent variables of the written questionnaire, at-home feeling in the Ulpan and psychosomatic complaints, and the other dependent variables and the independent variables of the depth interview. The relations of the first, dealt with in this chapter, are of special interest for the study of problems of personal adjustment. Two types of personal adjustment will be discerned, as is the case in the earlier enquiry among Dutch immigrants, predominantly active, creative, adjustment to society, i.e. general adjustment, and more passive reactive adjustment to community, i.e. affiliation. Only significant and tentative relations will be reviewed. The non-existence of certain relations, for instance in respect to mental health, will only be mentioned where they seem to be of special interest. Relations already discussed in former chapters will briefly be mentioned. Finally, the question whether the Ulpan represented a temporary community will be dealt with and answered affirmatively.