Considering the settlement by cultural adaptation as the important factor of personal home and social life among the factors necessary for marriage immigrants who marry Korean men to settle in Korean society, this research intends to clarify the relat...
Considering the settlement by cultural adaptation as the important factor of personal home and social life among the factors necessary for marriage immigrants who marry Korean men to settle in Korean society, this research intends to clarify the relation between marital satisfaction and children fostering stress and their influence to adapt well to culture. To collect materials, questionnaire method was implemented to 133 marriage immigrating women with children living in the metropolitan circle(Gyeonggi, Incheon, Seoul), the objects of research. The scale composed by this researcher based on preceding research was used to measure the cultural adaptation, marital satisfaction and fostering stress. Frequency analysis, crossing analysis, correlation, regression analysis and multi regression analysis were implemented to analyze the research problem. Analysis was made through Cronbach's α to verify the reliability of scale items, because the original scale of marital satisfaction, fostering stress and cultural adaptation was used after revision. The, they were verified to be reliable with the following values, marital satisfaction in .80, fostering stress in .84 and cultural adaptation in .71. The main result of this research is summarized as follows.
First, analyzing correlation to verify the relation among marital satisfaction, fostering stress and cultural adaptation of the research objects, significant correlation was found among marital satisfaction, fostering stress and cultural adaptation, showing relation among the variables.
Second, checking the influence that marriage immigrating women's marital satisfaction has on cultural adaptation by regression analysis, it was found that cultural adaptation is higher when marital satisfaction is higher. Analyzing the influence that fostering stress has on the cultural adaptation, it was found that cultural adaptation is higher when fostering stress is lower.
Third, checking influence that marriage immigrating women's marital satisfaction and fostering stress have on the cultural adaptation by multi regression analysis, it was found that although marital satisfaction and fostering stress affect cultural adaptation, fostering stress affects more than marital satisfaction.
Fourth, it was found that household income and occupation were the main factors among demographic and sociological property, since they affected marriage immigrating women's cultural adaptation.
Generalizing this result, it was proven that the marital satisfaction and fostering stress of marriage immigrating women with children respectively affected marriage immigrating women's cultural adaptation considerably and fostering stress had higher influential force than marital satisfaction. Therefore, it can be concluded that marital satisfaction and fostering stress are the important variable in the process where marriage immigranting women with children adapt to culture.
After research, it is suggested as follows. First, since the meaning of questions in the scale for Korean women may not be communicated sometimes owing to difference in cultural background and confusion in language, it is necessary to subdivide each object so as to understand the cultural background or language more easily and to develop simple scale.
Second, although there are many marriage immigrating women who are excluded from the local social service in the metropolitan circle, they are separated from outside. Thus, it is required to approach and research marriage immigrating women who are alienated from cultural benefit and information.
Third, if marriage immigrating women divorce, they will face diverse difficulties such as economic situation, the issue of illegal staying and residence, especially, the issue of language and technology for employment. Since the problems related to their children may be also emerged seriously, constant interest and research are required.
According to the response on the difficulty in living in Korea and necessary service of the objects of this research, diverse services are required from the difficulty of fostering children and delivery, service related to fostering children, education to adapt to culture in Korea, vocational training, educational service of the mother country of the children. Thus, the constant research and politic intervention related to children are required.