The purpose of this stndy is to understand the state of mental health of the female North Korean refugees in China and to prepare the further interventions for them by investigating their psychopathological symptoms with the demographical characters a...
The purpose of this stndy is to understand the state of mental health of the female North Korean refugees in China and to prepare the further interventions for them by investigating their psychopathological symptoms with the demographical characters and stress copying styles. The results of this stady were as follows. First, the results of analysis of differences in symptom dimensions according to their demographical characters show that there were relationships in age and intention about family members' escape variables with Somatization, family members in North Korea variable with Anxiety, marriage and experience of arrest variables with Hostility, and marriage, sexual abuse and human traffics variables with Phobic anxiety. Second, the results of hierarchical regression analysis suggested that emotion-reducing style had significant effects on all of the symptom dimensions of female refugees. For the residue, there were several demographical variables having significant effects on symptom dimensions. Finally, the meaning and limitations of this study were suggested.