Psychological Difficulties in Marriage Migrant Women Adaptation

The paper is devoted to the theoretical review of psychological difficulties in the adapta-tion of migrant women, who moved to a new country due to family reunification. In this article, psychological difficulties are understood as any internal barriers, violations, fail-ures, etc., that prevents optimal adaptation, in this case, of migrants. The focus of research by modern scientists is aimed at studying socially disadvantaged migrants and labor mi-grants. There is not enough research on women who have moved to a new country with their husbands. Four groups of psychological difficulties were identified that impede the successful adaptation of women, as well as the clinical manifestations associated with these difficulties: women's expectations regarding interaction with society do not coincide with society's expectations which contributes to the emergence of frustration and depriva-tion; the predominance of external motivation when moving to another country (following a husband) results in loss of work and familiar environment which often leads to depres-sion and/or somatization; the predominance of compelled contacts in the structure of communication causes an increased irritability; self-image as a migrant before the move does not coincide with real self-image in a new country generates intrapersonal conflicts.