Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health of Puerto Rican Post-Disaster Migrants

Author:

Escue Melanie1ORCID,Aranda Elizabeth2,Rosa Alessandra2

Affiliation:

1. University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA

2. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

Abstract

Prior research has explored the relationship between disasters and the personal well-being of migrants in the United States. The current study retrospectively evaluates the subjective well-being of Puerto Rican post-disaster migrants before migration, after migration (and after the return migration to Puerto Rico of a small subset of the sample), and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing both Wilcoxon Signed Rank and independent samples t-tests, we find that stateside and return migrants experience declines in self-reported mental health after migration and return migration (before the COVID-19 pandemic) and during the pandemic. In addition, we find that return migrants report worse mental health, more negative emotions, and fewer positive emotions than migrants who remained stateside. Our findings have implications for our understanding of Puerto Ricans’ subjective well-being and mental health. Directions for future research on post-disaster climate migration, and particularly the subjective well-being of return migrants, are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Social Psychology

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