Abstract
Poor social integration is associated with poor quality of life among minority groups. The current study hypothesized that trust and sociability may significantly explain the quality of life performance among Sub-Saharan African migrants in Germany. Data from 518 migrants were analyzed. Hierarchical multiple linear regression models were calculated to assess the predictive effect of trust and sociability on aggregate quality of life. Results show that general trust and sociability explained about 21% of the variance in quality of life score (adjusted R 2 = .206; p < .001) for the total sample. Socioeconomic and demographic features suggested an added predictive effect of about 8% for total sample (adjusted R 2 = .279; p < .001), 10% for male (adjusted R 2 = .322; p < .001) and 4% for female (adjusted R 2 = .211; p < .001). The results support trust and sociability as essential in connecting to a new environment and enhancing the quality of life.
Highlights
Migration has become an unavoidable part of human life necessitated by needs and the desire to explore new opportunities to improve income, education, and overall life outcome
This study examined the empirical evidence that trust and sociability among Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants may significantly be ideal for understanding the quality of life (QoL) of the SSA migrant group in Germany and subsequently support evidence to measure up the experience of other migrants in different settings
Further analysis to distinguish whether the reported sociability was of the bonding or bridging variety shows 61.5% of reported sociability were of bridging combination
Summary
Migration has become an unavoidable part of human life necessitated by needs and the desire to explore new opportunities to improve income, education, and overall life outcome. The Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants are unique groups whose migration circumstance has been scrutinised in empirical discourse in the last 2 decades (Afulani and Asunka, 2015; Afulani et al, 2016; Zou et al, 2021). While existing literature has highlighted low life satisfaction among SSA migrants (Kogan et al, 2018), the quest to understand this group adaptation and factors that contribute to their well-being remains critical in research and policy intervention. The quality of life (QoL) assesses the overall subjective evaluation of life (Felce and Perry, 1995). The QoL measures dissect individual self-evaluation of essential features of their functioning in diverse spheres of their well-being, Abbreviations: QOL, Quality of life; SSA, Sub-Saharan African; WHO, World Health Organization
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