The percentage of the foreigners who live in Korea is 1.8% of the total Korean population as of 2008, and one out of 10 marriages is an international marriage. Therefore, multiculturalism is now a trend that cannot be ignored in Korea.
As multicultur...
The percentage of the foreigners who live in Korea is 1.8% of the total Korean population as of 2008, and one out of 10 marriages is an international marriage. Therefore, multiculturalism is now a trend that cannot be ignored in Korea.
As multicultural families are constantly increasing, the number of the children born from international marriages are growing accordingly. A considerable number of children with multicultural backgrounds have already reached school age, and they are frequently found in local schools.
Most of the children from the multicultural families are exposed to two different cultures and languages, which leads them to insufficient use of Korean language and limited understanding on Korean culture.
Four major difficulties the multicultural families in Korea face are education, language barriers, low income, and Korean people's prejudice against them. Especially, due to their different looks and skin colors, some children with multicultural backgrounds are ostracized by their classmates, feeling helplessness and depression.
Overall, children from the multicultural families exhibit low self-efficacy as they go through school maladjustment, social prejudice, language problems, and economic hardships during the crucial period of their identity formation. However, the social support that helps their school adjustment to boost their self-efficacy is not very strong due to many obstacles.
Although several researches have been done on the affective factors that may influence education and school adjustment of the multicultural children, the ones dealing with specific affective factors in a more geographically segmented area are very few. For this reason, this study has surveyed the children in Goyang city whose mothers' nationalities are Japanese in the areas such as self-efficacy, family traits, and parent-child attachment, to analyze how these factors affect their school adjustment.
The result of the analysis are as follows:
Firstly, the number of friends and the academic performance of the children participated in the survey turn out to be meaningful factors influencing their self-efficacy and school adjustment, and the amount of time spent with their mothers is related with their attachment to their parents.
Secondly, there are correlations between academic performance and self-efficacy; parent-child attachment and self-efficacy; and school adjustment and self-efficacy.
Based on these results, the social implications can be suggested as follows:
Firstly, as the number of friends is an influencing factor on children's school adjustment, a system is required where teachers and parents will take an initiative to help multicultural children make friends with their classmates.
Secondly, given the finding that academic performance is related with self-efficacy and school adjustment, there arise the needs that multicultural children should get a systematic education on Korean language and culture. Most of the multicultural children tend to learn how to read and write later than their age-match counterparts, because their mothers do not have a good command of Korean language. The late start of their language learning results in their poor academic performance, which affects their self-efficacy and school adjustment adversely.
Thirdly, parent-child attachment, which influences children's school adjustment, has correlation with the time spent for mother-child communication. Although most of foreign mothers want to have more time with their children, they find it difficult due to language barriers, their lack of communication skills, and economic hardships.
A help for the foreign mothers to learn Korean language, and a monetary support for the multicultural families in low income brackets are recommended so that the mothers can find more time for parent-child bonding, which is conducive to their children's school adjustment.
In a society which is fast moving towards multiculturalism, it is necessary to give a constant care and support to the children and the families with multicultural backgrounds so that they may play an important role in our community.
As the findings of this study are solely based on the answers given by the children of the multicultural families in Goyang city whose mothers' nationalities are Japanese, the results cannot be generalized for all the multicultural families around the country. Therefore, those limits should be rectified in later studies.
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