• Human Ecology Research
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.113-125
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• 2021

Previous research on the association between marriage and life satisfaction is limited due to the lack of attempts to investigate the time profiles of life satisfaction around marriage. This study addresses unresolved questions about the positive association between marriage and life satisfaction as well as tests if it is moderated by childhood parental divorce. Using 14 waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study(N=3,890 individuals or 25,338 person-year observations), the author first used an ordinary least squares model with clustered standard errors and found that married people reported higher life satisfaction before marriage, compared to people who remained single during the survey. This result supports a social selection perspective. Next, the author used a fixed effects regression model and found that the transition into marriage was associated with an initial rise and subsequent decline in life satisfaction. Life satisfaction increased after reaching its lowest level in the third year of marriage. Life satisfaction after the transition into marriage was significantly higher than that observed three or more years prior to marriage. The result supports a social causation perspective. Such changing patterns were not moderated by parental divorce during childhood. This study advances the current literature on marriage and life satisfaction by using a nationally representative longitudinal data set as well as by testing social selection and causation perspectives.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2017

This study examined the predictors of life satisfaction of marriage migrant wives with school-aged children in South Korea. For this purpose, we draw data from the 2015 National Survey on Multi-cultural Families (NSMF). The target group was marriage migrant wives who were in a first marriage and had school-aged children (N=3,004). We used OLS regression to examine the predictors of the target group's life satisfaction with the SPSS 18.0 program. The results are as follows. First, marriage migrant wives with school-aged children had maintained their marriage for at least 14 years. They were satisfied with their relationships with both their spouses and their children. Also, they were satisfied with their spouse's child care roles. They did not support the multi-cultural policy of assimilation. Their Korean proficiency was slightly higher than the middle level. More than half had jobs and had not attended a parent meeting. Second, although they were satisfied with their everyday lives, their levels of life satisfaction were less than that of migrant wives with children below 5 years of age. Third, all variables explained 38.8% of the life satisfaction experienced by marriage migrant wives with school-aged children. Satisfaction with their spouses, subjective health, satisfaction of spouse's child care role, monthly family income, satisfaction with their children, experience attending a parents meeting, and Korean proficiency were positively associated with the life satisfaction of this target group. The findings of this study are significant because they can provide certain implications for family life education and policy within a multi-cultural society.

• 한국가족관계학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.131-153
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• 2017

Objective: This study aimed to examine the effects of adult children's marriage-delay on their parents' mental health. Furthermore, this study investigated how the influence of adult children's marriage-delay on parents' mental health could vary depending on the coresidence and employment status of the marriage-delayed adult children. Method: Two waves of Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) were used for the analyses. Multiple regression models were conducted with 2,938 Korean parents who had at least one child, regardless of gender (aged 33~44). Results: First, adult children's marriage-delay was related to lower levels of parents' life satisfaction. Second, the levels of parents' life satisfaction were low regardless of residing with their marriage-delayed adult children, and the parents who were not living with their marriage-delayed adult children showed lower levels of life satisfaction than parents living with marriage-delayed adult children. Third, only the parents with unemployed marriage-delayed adult children showed significantly higher levels of depression. However, the levels of parents' life satisfaction were low regardless of the employment of marriage-delayed adult children, and the parents of unemployed marriage-delayed adult children showed lower levels of life satisfaction than the parents of employed marriage-delayed adult children. Conclusions: It is necessary to consider the effects of marriage, employment and coresidence of adult children on their parents in order to enhance the mental health of the parents. Also, the effects of marriage-delay on intimate relationships, such as family dynamics, need to be explored more in further research.

• 가족자원경영과 정책
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.21-39
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• 2020

The purposes of this study were to identify the factors that affect the life satisfaction of unmarried one-person households and to examine how these factors influence this population. This study targeted 308 unmarried one-person households. The results found the following: one-person households without marriage experience had higher levels of job stress than one-person households with marriage experience, and the level of differentiation of family projections was lower; the overall level of life satisfaction was higher in one-person households without marriage experience than in one-person households with marriage experience; in one-person households without marriage experience, higher life satisfaction correlated with higher levels of self-integration, family projection processes, and family retirement differentiation, and lower job stress, which was correlated with higher self-control ability, higher evaluation and higher material support; and life satisfaction was found to be higher in unmarried one-person households that received more information and had a lower age, lower job stress, and higher monthly income. This study contributes to the literature in that it explores how marital experience interacts with demographic variables, occupational factors, psychological factors, and social support factors and consequently affects the life satisfaction of unmarried one-person households.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.51-60
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• 1996

The purpose of this study is to identify the objective picture of developmental pattern of marital satisfaction of couples based on family life cycle length of marriage marriage cohort birth cohort and age of couples using data from 317 couples in urban cities. The result indicate that the U-curve of marital satisfaction is the special pattern of family life cycle while W-curve is more dominant pattern when data are analysed with length of marriage birth cohort and marriage cohort. The couples differ in their assessment of marital satisfaction through entire their life span which seems for wives to become more dissatisfied over time. The similarity of developmental pattern the spouses appears only in their birth cohort. Discussion and recommendations for future research of the marital satisfaction are suggested.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.171-179
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 한국전통무용 참가 결혼이주여성의 문화적응 스트레스가 생활만족도에 미치는 영향을 규명하고 내재된 변인인 자아존중감이 갖는 매개효과에 대해 규명할 것을 제안한다. 연구대상은 D시의 이주여성 지원센터에서 제공되는 프로그램에 참가하는 결혼이주여성(실험집단:28명, 통제집단:30명)으로 3개월간(주 2회, 50분씩)의 한국전통무용프로그램 참가 전, 후의 수집된 설문자료를 SPSS 21.0을 이용하여 변인간의 구조적 관계를 검증하였다. 그 결과 한국전통무용참가 결혼이주여성의 문화적응 스트레스는 자아존중감과 생활만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 주었으며, 자아존중감을 통해 생활만족도에 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 한국전통무용참가 결혼이주여성의 문화적응 스트레스는 자아존중감과 생활만족도에 직접적인 영향을 줌과 동시에 자아존중감의 매개효과를 통해서도 생활만족도에 간접적인 영향을 미치는 중요한 요인임을 검증하였다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.253-284
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to examine a relative effect of the variables infecting on the education satisfaction of the Womens College for marriage immigrant women established by nonghyup to help improve the quality of life of theirs. By the hierarchical regression, a positive change in life through the education($\beta$=.28), a attitude of sustainable education participation($\beta$=.20), age ($\beta$=.21), whether or not in volunteer experience($\beta$=-.16) affected on the womens the education satisfaction significantly. But an effect of the variable of evaluation on the college education environment was not significant on it. It is conclude that the education for marriage immigrant women should be focused to enhance a adjustment capability of the women and to induce a change of life by supporting a sustainable education and a opportunity of affluent experience.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.96-103
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• 2016

본 연구는 결혼이주여성의 차별경험과 삶의 만족도 사이의 관계를 확인하기 위한 연구이다. 본 연구는 A 도시의 다문화 가정 지원 센터를 다니는 108명의 결혼이주여성을 대상으로 설문조사한 조사연구로, 본 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 결혼이주여성의 차별경험의 평균은 2.15점, 삶의 만족도는 3.93점 이었다. 또한 차별경험과 삶의 만족도는 부적 상관관계를 가지고 있었다(r=-.289, p<.001). 결혼이주여성의 차별경험은 이들의 삶의 만족도에 유의한 예측인자로 나타났다(${\beta}=.312$, p=.030). 이러한 결과에 따라 본 연구에서는 결혼이주여성의 차별경험이 삶의 만족도에 영향 미치는 것을 나타났다. 그러므로 이러한 결과를 기반으로 결혼이주여성의 삶의 만족도를 향상시키기 위한 차별경험 조절 프로그램 연구를 제안한다.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제49권10호
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• pp.57-69
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• 2011

The purpose of the present study was to examine married female immigrants' life style and marriage satisfaction on the perception of preparing their old age. We also investigated how socio-demographic factors influence their Preparation for old age. For the study, -data were collected from 350 questionnaires obtained from female immigrants living in Chungcheongnam-do. Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ tests were conducted for reliability, and regressional analysis was conducted to test our hypotheses. The results of this study shows that there is evidence of relations among the sub-variables. However, we found attitudes to safety and material pursuit are not related to married female immigrants' preparations for their old age. On the other hand, the results indicate that their life style and marriage satisfaction influences their perception of preparing their old age in a positive way. Finally, sociodemographic factors such as gender, age, education, marriage status, occupation and income are shown to affect the women's perception of preparing their old age positively.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.8535-8549
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 국제결혼 이주여성의 삶의 만족도를 파악하여 삶의 만족을 향상시킬 수 있는 사회적지지 방안을 마련하기 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 하는데 두었다. 전반적인 삶의 만족도 수준은 보통 이상(평균 3.40)으로 나타났으며 남편의 연령층이 낮을수록, 부부의 연령차이가 적을수록 높게 나타났다. 남편의 학력이 높을수록, 부인이 종교가 있는 경우가 높게 나타났고, 남편과의 학력 차이에 따라 유의미한 차이를 보였다. 거주기간에 따라서는 5년 미만이 높게 나타났으며 남편의 직업이 전문직과 사무직인 경우 높게 나타났다. 가정의 월 소득 수준이 높을수록, 자신의 집에 거주하고 있는 경우에 삶의 만족도가 높게 나타났다. 이러한 배경에서 국제결혼 이주여성들에게 사회구성원이라는 통합된 관점에서 글로벌 국가로 나아가는 체계적인 지원정책이 필요하다.