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KMID : 0614420100340010189
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Mental Health & Social Work
2010 Volume.34 No. 1 p.189 ~ p.221
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The Impact Factors on Mental Health among Marriage Migrant Women
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Im Hyuk
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Abstract
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Providing high quality and effective health care services become an important social issue that are due to increasing culturally diversity and multi-cultural family in these days. The objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of ecological variables on marriage migrant women’s mental health and to develop strategies to improve their mental health. Research subjects consist of 632 marriage migrant women who are living in Busan city. The main findings of this study were as following. First, there was a meaningful difference on the variables such as education, monthly income, presence of children regarding to mental health problem. Second, mental health problem was found to be strongly correlated with acculturation stress positively and family relationship negatively. Third, hierarchial linear regression analysis revealed that the higher education and monthly income, positive family relationship, frequent social contact with Koreans and much more the number of social support they had, the more positive mental health status they acquired. However, Higher acculturation stress and exposure to family distress events had a negative impact on mental health. The explanatory power was 44.5% and the most powerful impact factors was acculturation stress and then factors regarding to family system was also important factor. Based on these results, Psychiatric social work intervention strategies for improving those women’s mental health and cultural adaptation were suggested.
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KEYWORD
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marriage migrant women, mental health, international migration, acculturation stress
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