The relationship between irritated feeling related to daily life and mental health of foreign wives in multi-cultural family of Korea

Yoon Jungsoo, Park Ji sun, Cheong Young Jo, Kim Jung Suk, Nakajima Kazuo

doi:10.14988/pa.2017.0000012926

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韓国の多文化家族における外国人妻の日常生活に関連した苛々感と精神的健康の関係
カンコクノタブンカカゾクニオケルガイコクジンツマノニチジョウセイカツニカンレンシタイライラカントセイシンテキケンコウノカンケイ
カンコクノタブンカカゾクニオケルガイコクヒトズマノニチジョウセイカツニカンレンシタカクリカエシカントセイシンテキケンコウノカンケイ
Relations between the irritated feeling which is relevant to the foreign wife's everyday life and mental health of multicultural family in Korea

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Abstract

This research aimed at clarifying the relevance of the "irritated feeling" which is relevant to everyday life and mental health of a multicultural family's foreign wife in Korea. This investigation was targeted 2,000 foreign wives of the multicultural family who lives in the C province in Korea. Stress cognition relevant to everyday life was analyzed as an independent variable, the mental health measured by a GHQ-12 was analyzed as a dependent variable, "age difference between husband and a wife", "difference of education background", "marriage form", "a husband's income" and "a wife's Korean acquisition situation" was analyzed as a control variable by structural equation modeling. The result is that irritated feeling of multicultural family's foreign wife is closely related to the mental health and especially, "negative feelings towards people of family and neighbor" and "economical general tightness" was strongly related to the mental health. From the above, this research was suggested the necessity of intervening the stress problem which multicultural family's foreign wife in Korea currently faced in everyday life positively from a social welfare's point of view.

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評論・社会科学

評論・社会科学 (102), 23-37, 2012-09-30

The Association of Social Studies, Doshisha University

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