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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2017.15.8.301

The Effects of Acculturative Stress, Ego-Resilience, and Gender Role Attitudes on Marital Satisfaction of Married Migrant Women  

Seo, Soen-Souk (Graduate School of Social Welfare, Hansei Unversity)
Paik, Jina (Department of Social Welfare, Hansei Unversity)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.15, no.8, 2017 , pp. 301-310 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of acculturative stress, ego-resilience, and gender role attitude of married migrant women on their marital satisfaction. For the study, a pre-survey was conducted in November 2015 and based on the result, the data collected in this survey over January 2016 through March 2016 was used. SPSS Win 21.0 program was utilized to proceed the analysis for the attributes of variables in marital satisfaction, correlation among variables, and hierarchical regression analysis. 274 subjects around the Multicultural Center users in Geonggi-do were selected as research targets and drew a conclusion as the following results. First, it showed that acculturative stress of married migrant women left a negative effect on the marital satisfaction and had the highest effect on it among the independent variables. Second, both ego-resilience and gender role attitudes influenced positively on the marital satisfaction of married migrant women. The need for program development to reduce acculturative stress and enhance ego-resilience was discussed.
Keywords
Married Migrant Women; Marital Satisfaction; Acculturative Stress; Ego-Resilience; Gender Role Attitude;
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