School performance and adjustment of Greek remigrant students in the schools of their home country

E-ISSN： 1469-1817|13|3|279-294

ISSN： 0142-7164

Source： Applied Psycholinguistics, Vol.13, Iss.3, 1992-07, pp. : 279-294

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Abstract

This study explores the adjustment of Greek remigrant students in Greek public schools after their families' return to Greece from the Federal Republic of Germany. Teacher and self-rating instruments were used, and achievement and language competence data were obtained. The sample consisted of 13- to 15-year-old junior high school students in northern Greece. The remigrant students were divided into two groups (“early return” and “late return”), based on the year of return to Greece. The control group consisted of all the local classmates of these students. Remigrant students (mainly late return) were found to experience difficulties mainly in the language/learning domain and less in the interpersonal and intrapersonal behavior domains.