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Development of the Integrated Educational Programs for the Female Marital Immigrant Families (여성결혼이민자가족의 지원을 위한 통합적 교육프로그램 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Hong, Sung-Hee;Kim, Sung-Sook
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.119-146
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to find the integrated educational programs for the female marital immigrant families in Korea. For this purpose, 21 immigrated female informants and 33 visiting teachers who provide teaching services to female informants were focus-group interviewed. The Major findings were as follows: Through the content analysis of informant's responses, both married female immigrants and visiting teachers expressed the needs of Korean language programs interpreted by immigrants' native speakers as well as programs to support their children. Married female immigrants expressed the needs for her husbands joining educational programs not much, on the other hand visiting teachers insisted to join their husbands as well as other family members to diverse family-related programs. Married female immigrants wanted programs to support their working skills, however visiting teachers emphasized their responsibilities and active attitudes before they get a job. Married female immigrants were not conscious any counselling programs to cope with husband's violence or maladjusted children, on the other hand visiting teachers insisted counselling programs to help female immigrants. Above all the programs, most of female marital immigrants wanted Korean language programs interpreted by their native speakers and programs to support their working skills, on the other hand visiting teachers emphasized the importance of family-related programs and counselling programs.

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The Difference of Child Care Support and Parenting Stress Depending on Using In-Home Care Service (아이돌보미 서비스 이용유무에 따른 사회적 지지와 양육스트레스의 차이)

  • Choi, Jung Shin
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.205-223
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study was to examine ways to improve In-Home Care Service for differences resulting from child care service and parenting stress, depending on use of the service. Participants consisted of hers from 293 who use the service in K region. From September 1, 2009 to October 25, total 193 mothers were surveyed by e-mail. 69 mothers were finally analyzed. The main results were as follows; First, the mothers got the supporting aids from two different ways, irrespective of using In-Home Care Service. One was the instrumental supports given them by their husband and relatives, and the informative and emotional supports maintained by husbands, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and network community, as well. Second, The In-Home Care Service non-users received child care support from their husbands and parents compared with the In-Home Care Service users. Third, few differences shown statistically between the two groups that use it and don't use it.

Factors Influencing Family Functioning of Couples with Breast Cancer in the Middle Adaptation Stage: Trajectory of Chronic Illness (유방암 생존자 가족의 가족기능에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Yong, Jin-Sun;Seo, Im-Sun
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.666-677
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    • 2009
  • Purpose: This study was to test a theoretical model examining the relationships among social support, illness demands, marital adjustment, family coping and family functioning in couples more than three years after breast cancer diagnosis. Methods: A causal modeling methodology was used to test the specified relationships in the recursive theoretical model. A total of 60 couples with breast cancer were recruited from January to April 2005. Five standardized questionnaires were used to measure the theoretical concepts: social support (ISSB), illness demands (DOII), marital adjustment (DAS), family coping (F-COPES), and family functioning (FACESII). Results: Path analysis results from the wives and the husbands revealed different patterns. Three hypotheses were supported in the wife model as predicted: social support and family coping, family coping and family functioning, and social support and marital adjustment (trend). Five hypotheses were supported in the husband model as predicted: social support and illness demands, also social support and marital adjustment, illness demands and marital adjustment, marital adjustment and family coping, and family coping and family functioning. Conclusion: This study provides valuable information for developing various interventions with social support for improving family functioning of breast cancer couples in the middle adaption stage (more than three years after diagnosis).

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Intergenerational support and marital satisfaction in Korea and Japan: A comparative study using the EASS2006 (남편 부모 및 부인 부모와의 지원 양상의 특징과 기혼 자녀의 결혼 생활 만족도와의 관계 -EASS*2006 데이터를 이용한 한일 비교-)

  • Lee, Su-Jin
    • Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.39-62
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    • 2018
  • This study examined the effect of intergenerational support provided by husbands and wives to their parents and vice versa on marital satisfaction of grown-up children. The study consisted of 229 married men and 319 married women in Korea and 220 married men and 249 married women in Japan. EASS2006 data were used in the analysis. Among Korean males, scores for marital satisfaction were highest among those who frequently offered financial support to their own parents and their spouse's parents. Among Korean females, scores for marital satisfaction were highest among those who offered daily support to their own parents. Among males and females, scores for marital satisfaction were highest among those who frequently received financial support from the husband's parents. In the case of Japanese males, scores for marital satisfaction were highest among those who no provided daily support to their own parents and to their spouse's parents.

The Effect of Marital Interaction on the Marital Instability of Foreign Wives in Gyeongnam (경남지역 여성결혼이민자의 부부 상호작용이 결혼불안정성에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2010
  • This study identifies how marital interaction influences the marital instability of foreign wives. Data for the study were based on a snowball sampling of 101 foreign wives married to Korean husbands in Gyeongnam, Korea. The respondents reported higher levels of perceived spousal support, marital satisfaction, and sexual satisfaction, but reported lower levels of spousal hostility. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to identify the variables that affect marital instability. Independent variables included in the study were years married, religion, monthly income, educational level, perceived husband support, sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and perceived husband hostility. While religion, educational level, sexual satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and perceived husband hostility had a strong effects on the marital instability of foreign wives, years of marriage, monthly income, and perceived husband support did not show significant effect on marital instability. Marital satisfaction had the strongest effect on marital instability.

Parenting Stress and Marital Satisfaction among Dual-earner Families (맞벌이가족의 부모역할 긴장과 부부관계)

  • 정현숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.151-162
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of various stressors among dual-earner families on parenting stress and marital satisfaction. Using a survey data collected from 168 dual-earner couples, this study investigated impact of various stressors, including husband division of labor, the satisfaction of childcare arrangement, husband's support on wife's outside work, family socioeconomic status, and strains from job. The finding suggested that, after controlling background variables(length of marriage, the number of children, and family income), high husbands' support on wife's outside work and low strains about their work hours had influenced on higher parenting stress among fathers, while high strains about their work hours had related to high parenting stress among mothers. It also found that high satisfaction on childcare arrangement and low depression were the factors predicting higher marital satisfaction of mothers, and high support on their wife's outside work, low work role strain, low depression, and low parenting stress had influenced on higher marital satisfaction among fathers. Discussions and recommendations for future research were added.

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Problem Coping Strategies Depression and the Social Support Needs for Psychological Adjustment of Unemployed Husband's Wives (실직자 가족의 문제와 대처, 우울감 및 심리문제 해결지원요구도 -실직자 아내를 중심으로-)

  • 최규련
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.47-62
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem coping strategies and depression of unemployed husband's wives and to analysis the social support(education and counseling program) needs for their psychological adjustment. The subjects were 139 unemployed husband's wives living in Seoul city and Kyungi-do province. The questionnaire method was used for data gathering. The major findings were as follows" 1) Wives perceived the most negative change of unemployed husband. Wives' depression was influenced by self-esteem evaluation of husband's coping behavior weak health passive coping strategies and negative change of husband and marital relation. 2) Wives needed education and counseling support the most in the area stress & mental health problem marital conflict and marital communication. The result of this study were discussed in the relation with the contents of education and counseling program for unemployed husbands' wives.

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The study on improvement of support system and experience of immigrated women victims of domestic violence (가정폭력 피해 결혼이민자여성의 경험과 지원체계 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Chang, On-Jeong;Park, Jeong-Yun
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.221-234
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    • 2010
  • This study reviews domestic violence characteristics, violence factors, and violence solving from survey reports, to find ideas that support shelter or counseling centers. The research method is a literal review and interview. The results were as follows : First, immigrant women experienced emotional, physical, sexual and economic violence. Domestic violence factors were individual characteristics of korea husbands, culture gaps, communication problems and attitudes of mother-in-laws. Second, coping attitudes for immigrant women were passiveness and overt patience of violence situations. Third, professional social workers or counselors were lacking. There was no network link between related service agencies; in addition. Service content was limited, was a lack support for independence.

Female International Marriage Immigrants' Parenting Self-Efficacy: Focusing on Chinese, Filipinas, and Vietnamese (여성결혼이민자의 양육효능감에 관한 연구: 중국, 필리핀, 베트남 출신 여성결혼이민자를 중심으로)

  • Choe, Hyung-Sung
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.48 no.7
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2010
  • This study investigated how the characteristics of female international marriage immigrants, their husbands, their children, and their families affected their parenting self-efficacy, using a sample of 187 female international marriage immigrants, from China, the Philippines, or Vietnam, now living in Pusan and Gyungnam, Korea. We used questionnaires were based on the studies by Choe & Chung (2001), Shin (1997), Lee (1996), and Lee & Song (1991), and with the addition of demographic characteristics. Analysis results showed that the mother's parenting self-efficacy subscales correlated positively with mother's educational level, social support, and Korean language level; husband's educational level; and family income, and negatively with mother's depression, husband's age, and mother's acculturative stress. Multiple regressions indicated that husband's support was the strongest predictor of female international marriage immigrants' parenting self-efficacy.

A Study on the Association of Middle-Aged Housewivess' Crisis and Their Social Network Support (中年期主婦의 危機感과 社會關係綱支援에 관한 硏究)

  • Shin, Ki-Young;Ok, Sun-Wha
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.9 no.1 s.17
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    • pp.161-178
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    • 1991
  • The purposes of this study are to investigate the impacts of social network support on the middle-aged housewives' crisis and to identify the importance of social network systems of modern families. The subjects of this study were unemployed housewives living in the Seoul area, whose age was from 40 to 59 and whose last child was older than 11 years old. Data were collected by structured questionnaire with the subjects(N= 404). The collected data were analyzed by Frequencies, onewy ANOVA, Scheffe-test, t-test. The major findings were as follows ; 1) Middle-aged housewives, who were the first half of 40's, university graduated, and bilieved in a religion, had lower crisis. 2) The association of social network support and middle-aged housewives' crisis, which were found to be significant were as follows ; (1) The more middle-aged housewives received total, emotional, instrumental support from husbands' families of origin, the lower their crisis was. (2) The more middle-aged housewives received total, emotional, informational, support from their families of origin, the lower their crisis was. (3) The more middle-aged housewives received total, emotional, instrumental support from their friends, the lower their crisis was. (4) The more middle-aged housewives received total, emotional, instrumental, social companionship support from their voluntary association members, the lower their crisis was.

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