The number of female marriage immigrant is gradually increasing in Korean society. The problems occurring in the process of adaptation of marriage of these people are surfacing as a social issue. The married lives of female marriage immigrants do not ...
The number of female marriage immigrant is gradually increasing in Korean society. The problems occurring in the process of adaptation of marriage of these people are surfacing as a social issue. The married lives of female marriage immigrants do not stop at the private problem but influence family and social problems. Hence, the objective of this study is to look at the influence of background factors of female marriage immigrant on their marriage adaptation and psychological adaptation. The subject for this study is female marriage immigrant residing in Busan. The female marriage immigrant from Philippines, Vietnam, China, Russia, Thailand, and Indonesia were selected. 153 questionnaires were collected from total of 180 and used 122 questionnaires for final analysis. Questionnaire is consisted of independent variables which are population sociological factor, wife abuse measure, and culture adaptation measure. Subordinate variables are marriage satisfaction measure and psychological adaptation measure. To measure marriage adaptation, level of life satisfaction, emotional and problem solving communication, sexual satisfaction level and the family relationship satisfaction level are used. For measuring psychological adaptation, self respect, depression and anxiety are used. For statistical analysis for treating the collected data, SPSS 12.0 for Windows program is used. For verification of study problems, to verify the reliability of each measuring tool, the reliability factor (Cronbach ) that verifies internal unity level was measured. Also, analysis of frequency, average, standard deviation, dispersion analysis and regression analysis are conducted. The analysis result of this study is as follows. First, among various factors, the most influential factor in marriage adaptation was wife abuse. The reason for abuse was caused by lack of understanding of the husband and patriarchal thinking. Because of lack of ability to use mother tongue of the wife, the smooth communication is not taking place. For detailed practice of policies, active support and effort of local welfare centers and related organization is in need. Second, for the factor influencing psychological adaptation, cultural adaptation took place. Cultural adaptation is not something that could be learned in short period of time. There should be constant learning involved until being assimilated into the society for a long period of time. To understand and adapt to the culture of one society is the way to coexist as a member of a society as anequal human being. Therefore, rather than exclusive consciousness towards female marriage immigrant, it should be improved to a consciousness to accept multi cultural and ethnic social environment. These effort will help female marriage immigrant to have psychological stability to adapt to marriage.