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KMID : 0613620200400020477
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Health Social Welfare Review
2020 Volume.40 No. 2 p.477 ~ p.517
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Cultural Adaptation Experience and Marital Quality among Korean Husbands Married to Immigrant Women: The Mediating Effects of Cognitive Flexibility and Multiple-Perspective Taking
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Hyun Kyoung-Ja
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Abstract
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This study examined relationships among experience of cultural adaptation, cognitive competence such as cognitive flexibility and multiple-perspective taking and marital quality among Korean men married to immigrant women. It also investigated a hypothesis that effects of cultural adaptation experiences on marital quality would be mediated by such cognitive competence. Data were drawn from a self-administered questionnaire study conducted in Seoul and a metropolitan area in which 173 Korean husbands in multicultural families participated. As expected, the results of regression analyses showed that both teaching self-culture and cultural adaptation activity significantly contributed to not only cognitive flexibility and multiple-perspective taking, but also marital quality as revealed in both couple intimacy and marital satisfaction. Cognitive competence as examined by cognitive flexibility and multiple-perspective taking was also positively related to such marital quality. In addition, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that the effect of cultural adaptation activity on couple intimacy is partially mediated by multiple-perspective taking. Finally, implications for social work practice were discussed based on these results.
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KEYWORD
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Multicultural Family, Korean Husband, Cultural Adaptation, Cognitive Competence, Marital Satisfaction, Couple Intimacy
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