Kinship Involvement: A Factor in the Adjustment of Rural Migrants

Abstract

This inquiry explores the rural migrant's involvement in a branch-family network in the industrial area of destination and the effect of such involvement upon various aspects of the migrant's social psychological adjustment. Five specified conditions are taken into account: age, sex, level of schooling, social class origin, and length of residence in urban localities. Data are derived from a project designed to follow up all persons who, 20 years earlier, were residents of an isolated mountain neighborhood in eastern Kentucky.