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KMID : 1001320190460020117
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Social Welfare Policy
2019 Volume.46 No. 2 p.117 ~ p.141
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The Perception of Marriage Immigrant Women on their Children’s Psychosocial Adjustments
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Jeon Yu-Jeong
Shin Won-Shik
Lee Oe-Soon
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to identify the types of marriage immigrant women’ perception on the psychosocial adjustment of their children, and thereby provide the basic data for various practice strategies for the children’s smooth psychosocial adjustment. This study also aims to suggest the desirable role of marriage immigrant women in raising their children. To this end, this study performed Q sort for 25 marriage immigrant woman who had children in infancy and early school age, using 30 statements selected carefully about the social adjustment of the children of multicultural families. The following four types were derived as a result of Q factor analysis. First, marriage immigrant women of ‘Livelihood - Passive Parent Role’ type marriage immigrant women are lacking in efforts to adjust their children to work for their living, and worries about social prejudice and discrimination have a passive attitude toward child rearing. Second, those of ‘recognition of child’s potential - improvement of social prejudice’ type have a positive future-oriented perception that, since their children have potential, they will naturally adjust to society during their growth. They think the problem is social prejudice against children from multicultural families. Third, those of ‘adjustment to reality - active parental role’ type accept the reality that their children have difficulties in peer relations or at school due to the lack of language skills. In order to address this problem, marriage immigrant women themselves have an active parenting attitude such as studying the Korean language. Fourth, those of ‘Social welfare service - Needs for Support’ type use social welfare services to help their children adjust to society, and think that social welfare policies and services should be expanded to support children from multicultural families adjust to society. In all the four types, language education for the children is found to be the most difficult problem in the social adjustment of the children of multicultural families. The findings of this study imply that there is a need to expand the support system for Korean language learning for the children of multicultural families and to establish various social welfare service delivery systems for their social adjustment.
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KEYWORD
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marriage immigrant women, social adjustment of the children, perception type, Q methodology
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