This article features a positive psychology perspective on migration, using hope theory as a conceptual framework to explain life satisfaction of Hispanic migrants in the United States. The cross-sectional study considers the association of acculturation and social support on wellbeing while accounting for the demographic and personal characteristics of Latino migrants (N = 169) in California and Florida. The final regression model (with the demographic variables of gender, health, realized expectations, the main effect of country, and the interaction variable of realized expectations by country), resulted in significant associations between life satisfaction and the variables of gender and health status. The study demonstrates that expectations (among other factors) significantly predict life satisfaction of Hispanic migrants, which implies that contextualizing migration experience in the positive light (rather than looking at stressors) may impact their quality of life.

本文采用积极心理学视角看待移民，使用希望理论作为概念框架来解释美国西班牙裔移民的生活满意度。横断面研究考虑了文化适应和社会支持对幸福感的关联，同时考虑了拉丁裔移民的人口统计和个人特征（N = 169）在加利福尼亚州和佛罗里达州。最终的回归模型（包含性别、健康、已实现的期望、国家的主效应和按国家的已实现期望的交互变量）的人口统计变量，导致生活满意度与性别和健康状况变量之间存在显着关联。该研究表明，期望（以及其他因素）显着预测西班牙裔移民的生活满意度，这意味着从积极的角度（而不是关注压力源）将移民经历置于情境中可能会影响他们的生活质量。