The refugee post-migration stress scale (RPMS) – development and validation among refugees from Syria recently resettled in Sweden

Table 3 Cronbach’s alpha for the seven factors of post-migration stress and for total scale, and Pearson correlations between factors and total scale, and anxiety, depression, PTSD, and mental wellbeing, respectively

Factor	Cronbach’s alpha	Anxiety	Depression	PTSD	Mental wellbeing
Perceived discrimination	0.82	0.27^b	0.28^b	0.24^b	−0.24^b
Lack of host country specific competences	0.80	0.25^b	0.34^b	0.36^b	−0.31^b
Material and economic strain	0.84	0.44^b	0.54^b	0.51^b	−0.49^b
Loss of home country	0.87	0.23^b	0.29^b	0.30^b	−0.26^b
Family and home country concerns	0.74	0.15^b	0.18^b	0.19^b	−0.15^b
Social strain	0.81	0.39^b	0.52^b	0.47^b	−0.44^b
Family conflicts	0.82	0.29^b	0.38^b	0.33^b	−0.34^b
RPMS total	0.86	0.44^b	0.54^b	0.49^b	−0.47^b

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