The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family on family health by focusing on the mediating effect of social support. The study verified the direct and indirect relationship betw... The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family on family health by focusing on the mediating effect of social support. The study verified the direct and indirect relationship between variables by setting the family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family to independent variable and social support to intervening variable. The study performed purposive sampling method by setting the women of multiculture family who uses multiculture program run by multiculture family support center, private group and religious group of Incheon area as study targets. For survey tool, family relationship stress scale, social support scale and family health scale were used. For data analysis method, collected data were analyzed by using SPSSWIN 17.0 program. In order to find out the demographic ․ social property of study target, frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation were calculated. In order to grasp validity and reliance of survey tool, factor analysis was used for validity and Cronbach's α value was calculated for reliance to check internal consistency. The statistic methods to verify the causal relationship between variables are as follows. Firstly, independence samples t-test and ANOVA were performed to check the difference among demographic ㆍ social property of the woman of multiculture family, family relationship stress and family health. Secondly, product-moment correlation coefficient of Pearson was calculated to find out the correlation among family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family, family health and social support. Thirdly, multiple regression analysis was performed to analyze the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family on family health. The study results are as follows. Firstly, the study analyzed the difference on the effect of family relationship stress recognized by the woman of multiculture family on family health and verified Hypothesis 1. Its result revealed that the sub factors constituting family health such as family tie, family communication, family member's troubleshooting ability and family member's value system have statistic relationships with family relationship stress recognized by the woman of multiculture family. The study verified its significant difference. Secondly, the study analyzed the effect of family relationship stress recognized by the woman of multiculture family on social support. The study analyzed the degree of the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family and verified Hypothesis 2. Its result revealed that the sub factors of family relationship such as husband relationship stress, children relationship stress, parents-in-law relationship stress, economy-related stress and health-related stress have relationship with the degree of family relationship stress recognized by the woman of multiculture family. The study found out the significant difference in the social support for the woman of multiculture family. The study result revealed that family relationship stress decreases when the social support for the woman of multiculture family was high. The study also verified that social support gave an effect to family relationship stress. Thirdly, the study analyzed the difference in the degree of effect of the social support recognized by the woman of multiculture family on family health and verified Hypothesis 3. Its result revealed that sub factors of social support such as husband's support, parents-in-law's support, Korean friend's support, homeland friend's support, homeland family's support and meaningful person's support have relationships with the degree of social support recognized by the woman of multiculture family. It was found that the social support for the woman of multiculture family had a significant relationship with family health. The study result revealed that social support has a close relationship with family health of the woman of multiculture family and social support gave an effect to family health. Fourthly, the study analyzed the difference in the degree of the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family on family health by using social support intervening variable and verified Hypothesis 4. Its result revealed that family relationship stress was not significant. There were the studies showing that the social support for the woman of multiculture family played an important mediation variable in family relationship stress. The study also found out that social support played the role of complete mediation. The study verified the effect of family relationship stress of the woman of multiculture family and social support for the woman of multiculture family on family health. The study results implicates following aspects. Firstly, the social support for the woman of multiculture family is meaningful as an alternative resource to improve family health. Therefore, social worker should evaluate the degree of social support for the woman of multiculture family and effective social support program for family health should be developed. Secondly, family relationship showed the result less than average as a variable to improve the family health of the woman of multiculture family. If the current program for multiculture family is focused on the woman of multiculture family, the program for entire family members should be actively developed in the future. In addition, communication training program should be actively developed and family members should participate in the program so that the disfunctional communication method of the family to which the woman of multiculture family is belonged can be reduced and functional communication can be used. Thirdly, in order to reinforce the interaction of family members through functional communication, linguistic communication and non-linguistic communication methods suc
|
