Types of Displacement Reactions among the Post Revolution Hungarian Immigrants

Abstract

A group of post-revolution Hungarian immigrants has been investigated in regard to their psychological reactions to displacement and in regard to their social adaptation in the new environment. From the clusters of emotional reactions and attitude patterns, reaction types have been isolated; over-acceptance, critical attitudes, general inhibition, hypo-reactive and hyper-reactive patterns. The relationship between the host and immigrant population has been discussed, and a hypothesis regarding the origin of displacement reactions was presented.