In July, 2008, the number of internationally married immigrants residing in Korea was 144,385 in total, of which immigrant women accounted for 88.4%. Until now, Korean society has tended to approach internationally married immigrant women as a vulnera...
In July, 2008, the number of internationally married immigrants residing in Korea was 144,385 in total, of which immigrant women accounted for 88.4%. Until now, Korean society has tended to approach internationally married immigrant women as a vulnerable class who needed to get themselves adapted to Korean society and as the object for social welfare service. However, internationally married immigrant women need to be seen as women of strong will to cultivate their own fate, and therefore, it's very important to empower them so that they can display their power and merits and lead their lives independently. On immigrating into Korea by marrying a Korean, internationally married immigrant women go through individual and sociocultural confusion of self-identity, and these various changes in a new culture and environment affect their emotional, behavioral and cognitive reaction to them. The factors mainly influencing these countermeasures are considered to be empowerment in an individual level.
This research aims at defining the factors affecting the empowerment of internationally married immigrant women, focusing on their demographical characteristics, social support for them, and their participation in the society, and at improving the empowerment of internationally married immigrant women. The research questions in more detail are as the followings.
First, how internationally married immigrant women subjectively value empowerment?
Second, what's the correlation between the demographical characteristics of internationally married immigrant women and empowerment?
Third, what's the relation between the social support for internationally married immigrant women and empowerment?
Fourth, how is the social participation of internationally married immigrant women and empowerment related?
Fifth, how do the social support for and the participation in the society by internationally married immigrant women affect empowerment?
Sixth, how to overally support internationally married immigrant women to enhance their empowerment?
The subjects of this research were 213 internationally married immigrant women living in Seoul or Incheon areas with no limit on their nationality. As the data collection method of this research, a structured questionnaire and self-administered survey method were used. In order to improve its accuracy and reliability, the questionnaire was translated into English, Japanese, Chinese, Philippine language, Vietnamese language and Korean, taking the nationalities of internationally married immigrant women into consideration.
The subordinate variables of empowerment, the main variable examined in this research, were categorized into self-image, practical power and personal political awareness. The subordinate variables of social support are emotional, materialistic, estimative and informational support, and those of social participation are political, economic, community, learning and leisure activities.
By synthetically inquiring into the relation among these variables, what variable affects and causes differences to the empowerment of internationally married immigrant women was researched through structural equation model analysis method. This analysis method was adopted because of its merit that the relation among empowerment of internationally married immigrant women, social support and social participation could be verified in a total model. Also, it was because the discussion of related variables could be developed simultaneously from the viewpoint of research model.
As for the statistical analysis method of this research, structural equation model analysis method was adopted. A model analysis method is a multivariate statistical analysis method to analyze a systematic theory on a phenomenon, and a statistical analysis method mainly used to verify a hypothesis. A structural equation model combines factor analysis and regression analysis to analyze cause and effect. This analysis methods was used because of its merit iin testing the empowerment variables of internationally married immigrant women that structured equation model tests not only inter-constructs relationship and inter-factors relationship verifying the effect of social support on participation in the society, the influence of social support on empowerment, and the effect of social participation on empowerment, but also inspects the relation among social support, participation in the society and empowerment in the total model, compared to multiple regression analysis, independent samples t-test, and one-way anova, which are used in general.
The study results are as the followings.
First, the causal relationship between the social support for internationally married immigrant women and their participation in the society was proved to strengthen empowerment.
Second, the interactive relationship between the social support for internationally married immigrant women and their participation in the society was found to contribute to stronger empowerment.
Third, the higher the social position of an internationally married immigrant woman is, the more positive influence it had on their participation in the society.
Fifth, as the social support for internationally married immigrant women becomes higher, it had better effect on the empowerment of self-image.
Sixth, the more internationally married immigrant women participated in the society, the better effect it had on empowerment.
Seventh, when internationally married immigrant women participated in the society more with social support, it had more positive influence on the empowerment of practical power.
Based on the research results above, the discussion of this study can be developed as follows.
First, when the social support for internationally married immigrant women is higher, it affected their participation in the society in a positive way. It was found that when their families and neighbors s
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