다문화가족의 문화·심리적 요인이 문화적응 스트레스와 결혼 만족도에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This research was aimed at the marital satisfaction of women who have immigrated to Korea for marriage. This study examines the effects of cultural and psychological factors of married immigrant women such as perceived cultural distance, cultural adaptation and depression on their acculturative stress and marital satisfaction in Korea. In order to make it more clearly, this study conducted the questionnaire surveys for 206 foreign married immigrant women living in Korea. The surveys was done from April 15, 2015 to May 13, 2015, by mail, online survey or in person survey at multicultural family support centers by Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, and English. The most subjects are Vietnamese women who are living in Kwangju, South Korea. For analysis method and the descriptive statistics, Pearson's coefficients of correlation, ANOVA and regression analysis, SEM were conducted using SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0 analysis program. Summarization of research results through analysis are as follows. Firstly, it was found that the average value of marital satisfaction is 3.8(±.85) out of 5 and mean value of acculturative stress is 2.7(±.93) out of 5. The high rate of marital satisfaction was found in Japanese women(M=4.2±.66) with high level education and who got married not through Marriage brokers. The high rate of acculturative stress was found in foreign women who have low level education, low level of Korean and through Marriage brokers. Secondly, it can be seen that relating to the effect of cultural adaptation on the acculturative stress of married immigrant women, acculturative stress became lower as cultural adaptation was higher. However perceived cultural distance did not predict acculturative stress. Next, it is mentioned about the terms of the effect of acculturative stress on family emotional intimacy, depression and marital satisfaction. Analysis result demonstrated that acculturative stress of married immigrant women was more severe while family emotional intimacy and marital satisfaction were weaker, depression was higher. Besides, family emotional intimacy had a positive effect on marital satisfaction. Analysis result showed that family emotional intimacy was higher as marital satisfaction was higher. Moreover, depression had a negative effect on marital satisfaction. Depression was more severe while marital satisfaction was weaker. Finally, the report showed the partial mediation effect of acculturative stress between adaptation and family emotional intimacy, between adaptation and depression, between adaptation and marital satisfaction. It also found the partial mediation effect of family emotional intimacy between acculturative stress and marital satisfaction, the partial mediation effect of depression between acculturative stress and marital satisfaction.