Under the JI-EPA （Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement）, approximately one thousand nurse and certified care worker candidates have been migrated to Japan since 2008. Migration has been known as a risk fac...Under the JI-EPA （Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement）, approximately one thousand nurse and certified care worker candidates have been migrated to Japan since 2008. Migration has been known as a risk factor of mental well-being. Little is known about how the in pre-migration stage may affect the migrant＇s mental health. The study examines the mental health predictor in pre-migration stage using cross sectional design. Gender, Age, EPA course, educational degree, working background, language proficiency, motivation for migration and knowledge about destination country selected as mental health predictor. The results showed that the variable knowledge about living environment is the only independent variable which is correlate with GHQ in the model, β = -0.20, P 〈 0.05. The finding may assume that the knowledge as part of cognitive preparation plays important role in explaining the mental health of the EPA candidates in pre-migration stage.展开更多
文摘Under the JI-EPA （Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement）, approximately one thousand nurse and certified care worker candidates have been migrated to Japan since 2008. Migration has been known as a risk factor of mental well-being. Little is known about how the in pre-migration stage may affect the migrant＇s mental health. The study examines the mental health predictor in pre-migration stage using cross sectional design. Gender, Age, EPA course, educational degree, working background, language proficiency, motivation for migration and knowledge about destination country selected as mental health predictor. The results showed that the variable knowledge about living environment is the only independent variable which is correlate with GHQ in the model, β = -0.20, P 〈 0.05. The finding may assume that the knowledge as part of cognitive preparation plays important role in explaining the mental health of the EPA candidates in pre-migration stage.
