Psychosocial stress and its impact upon conspicuous behavior in German andmigrant adolescents/adolescents from migrant and German families

Objectives: Comparison of the familial, socio-economic and cultural factors among adolescents from German and migrant families; analysis of the risk f actors for conspicuous behavior among the adolescents. Methods: 224 graduates of secondary schools in the Kreuzberg district of Be rlin replied to three questionnaires situations, psychosocial stress and co nspicuous behavior. Results: The living situation of the adolescents from migrant, above all Tu rkish families as compared to their German counterparts, is characterized p sychosocial disadvantage. but a greater stability within differences are al so noted. Risk factors in conjunction with conspicuous behavior included in and socioeconomic factors above all chronic illness, and persecution and d iscrimination, whereby chronic illnesses were most significantly frequent a mong the German; while persecution and discrimination frequent among the Tu rkish adolescents. Cultural differences posed no risks for conspicuous beha vior.