An international marriage in Korea has been increasing dramatically these days as globalization and 76% of international marriages is the marriage between Korean men and immigrant women. We can see not only the increase in international marriage popul...
An international marriage in Korea has been increasing dramatically these days as globalization and 76% of international marriages is the marriage between Korean men and immigrant women. We can see not only the increase in international marriage population but also the diversity of their nationality such as China, Vietnam, Japan, Philippine, Cambodia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan. This new marriage trends mean Korea is becoming a multi-culture society and required more social care for marriage immigrants.
This study is trying to find out the reasons which bring the stress to female marriage immigrants while they get used to the new life in Korea and how these reasons influence to their psychological well-being(life satisfaction, depression) in stressful factors such as socio-culture, marriage life and social resources.
The study has conducted self filling-out survey of female marriage immigrants who live in Seoul & Gyeonggi Province and selected and analyzed available 156 samples. The SPSS/Win 12.0 was used for analyzation by taking measures such as frequency, technical statistics, cronbach's α, correlation, cross-over, one-way ANOVA and multiple regression.
Abridged main results of survey are as following.
First, as to psychological well-being of female marriage immigrants, the life satisfaction point is average 32.40 that is above the mid-point and depression point is average 27.03 that is a little bit higher than the mid-point. That is to say, both points are above the mid-points and the life satisfaction point is much higher level comparing to depression point.
Second, the reasons to influence on psychological well-being of female marriage immigrants are as following. In case of the life satisfaction level, the main reasons are 'to meet the expectation on marriage they had before the marriage', 'insufficient understanding their own ethnic cultures', 'troubles with husband', 'social supports' and 'needs for assistant program to adapt'. Consequently, two reasons as 'insufficient understanding their own ethnic cultures', 'troubles with husband' have negative effects on their life satisfaction level, while rest three factors as 'to meet the expectation on marriage they had before the marriage', 'social supports', 'needs for assistant program to adapt' have passive effects.
In case of depression, the influential reasons are 'house income', 'the courses to get married' and 'troubles with husband'. Consequently, 'house income' has considerable effects that as it is higher, depression is diminishing. The rest two reasons as 'the courses to get married' and 'troubles with husband' have passive effects on their depression.
Third, the research found out the specific possible reasons influencing psychological well-being that explain what determines their life satisfactions or depression. Those possible reasons are 'difficulty in language', 'troubles with husband', 'social supports' and 'needs for assistant program to adapt' for determining 'life satisfaction' level and 'employed or not', 'troubles with husband' for 'depression' level.
In conclusion, The more fluent in Korean and the less having troubles with husband and the more accessible to social support and the higher needs for assistant program to adapt female marriage immigrants are, the more satisfied with their marriage life and the less experience depression.
These results of the research say that social adaptation program and the improvement of legal & social system for female marriage immigrants are required to relieve their stress and negative factors and to elevate their life satisfaction level while they are getting used to new life in Korea.
Specifically, Korean government and NGO need to help actively female marriage immigrants by means of providing social adaptation program, couple relationship school, family counselling, mentor service through social network as well as expansion of job opportunity. All of these managements are collectively taken care of through the policy proposals.
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