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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2016.14.11.427

Factors Affecting Marital Satisfaction among Vietnamese Female Marriage Immigrants  

Kim, Yoen-Soo (Dept. of Social Welfare, Baekseok University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.14, no.11, 2016 , pp. 427-434 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study aims to examine which factors affect marital satisfaction among Vietnamese marriage immigrants focusing on the demographic background, social support, self-efficacy, and acculturation related variables. Purposive sampling was conducted for the study and 201 Vietnamese marriage immigrants participated in the self-administered questionnaire survey through Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Chungcheong area's social service agencies. The results of 4 step hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that the age of woman's husband(${\beta}=-.18$, p<.01), social support(${\beta}=.61$, p<.001), and acculturative stress(${\beta}=-.24$, p<.001) impacted on the woman's marital satisfaction and these variables showed 58.6% explanatory power at the final regression model. Based on these results, social services and social policies for the enhancement of Vietnamese wive's marital satisfaction were discussed.
Keywords
Vietnamese Marriage Immigrants; Marital Satisfaction; Social Support; Acculturative Stress; Multicultural Family;
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