This study was carried with 99 Korean foster parents to examine their role satisfaction. It analyzed general characteristic of foster child and foster parents and established child factor, foster parents and foster family factor, contact of birth pare...
This study was carried with 99 Korean foster parents to examine their role satisfaction. It analyzed general characteristic of foster child and foster parents and established child factor, foster parents and foster family factor, contact of birth parents and relatives factor, relationship with social worker and foster care support center factor and foster parents education and training participation factor as independent variables. This study divided foster parents role satisfaction by four subordinate domain of social service, family system change, emotional intimacy and social evaluation. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, t-test and One-Way ANOVA. According to the result, First, role satisfaction was differed by age and sex of child. Second, role satisfaction was differed by having two foster child, age of over 40, college graduate, monthly income is 3 million won at foster parents factor. Second, the result on investigating about contact of birth parents and relatives factor and role satisfaction, it did not show much difference but there was difference statistically at social evalulation of subordinate domain. Third, result that investigated about foster parents`` role satisfaction by relation with social worker and foster care support center, there was meaning statistically at path that get nursing information and exchange type. There was role satisfaction in process that get own nursing information by foster parents but not by social worker. Fourth, result that compared foster parent`s role satisfaction by foster parents education and training participation group which take orientation and group which attend inservice education showed no meaning statistically group which do not attend. In this study, it was found that role satisfaction standard that can consider foster parent`s characteristic in our country and various factors that can contribute in foster parents` role satisfaction. But, it has difficulty to generalize results because it did not use random sampling.