The purpose of this study was to survey and analyze the effects of home violence suffered by the women immigrated to Korea for marriage, focusing on their mental health involving stress and depression and thereby, suggest the ways for them to live a b... The purpose of this study was to survey and analyze the effects of home violence suffered by the women immigrated to Korea for marriage, focusing on their mental health involving stress and depression and thereby, suggest the ways for them to live a better life in Korea.For this purpose, the researcher randomly sampled 10 immigrant women attending the Municipal Women's Culture Center in Incheon metropolitan city as of September, 2007 for a questionnaire survey, and analyzed the results of the survey preliminarily. Then, the researcher designed a questionnaire and had it translated into English, Chinese and Vietnamese. Thus, 4 versions of questionnaire in Korean, English, Chinese and Vietnamese were distributed to 104 immigrant women attending the same culture center. 100 responses excluding 4 ones deemed not serious were used for the final analysis.The results of this study can be summarized as follows;First, as a result of analyzing the effects of home violence on subjects' depression and stress, it was found that those women who had experienced home violence were more depressed and stressed.Second, differences of depression and stress levels depending on experience of linguistic violence were statistically significant. Namely, those women who had suffered from linguistic violence at home were more depressed and stressed.Third, as a consequence of testing the differences of depression and stress depending on experiences of physical violence at home, physical violence was found to be more correlated with depression than stress. Namely, those women who had experienced physical violence at home were suffering more from depression.Fourth, as a result of testing the differences of depression and stress depending on financial violence at home, it was found that the financial violence at home influenced subjects' mental health negatively.Fifth, as a result of testing the differences of depression and stress depending on social isolation, it was found that the social isolation affected stress level more than depression.Sixth, as a consequence of testing the differences of depression and stress depending on sexual violence at home, only stress level was found to differ significantly depending on sexual violence, but the variances were too wide to be reliable.Based on the above findings, the practical suggestions for immigrated women for marriage were put forwards as follows;First, it is necessary to expand effective social welfare services for them. While preceding studies focused primarily on the Korean women, this study targeted the foreign immigrant women to analyze the effects of their family relationship, marriage conflicts and violence on their stress and depression. As the findings of this study suggest, it is deemed necessary to expand the overall practical social services for them and other foreign immigrant workers alienated in our society.Second, it is necessary to expand the scope of study in terms of region. Since there are also many foreign immigrant women in the rural areas, it was a regret that this study was limited to a city (Incheon). As the base for foreign immigrant women married to Korean men expands further in the future, raising a social issue, it is required of future studies to find the ways to expand the social welfare services for them in view of balance between urban and rural areas.Third, it is essential to develop professional programs relieving the foreign immigrant women of stress and depression as well as helping them to improve their mental health. ，韩语论文网站，韩语论文网站 |
