Abstract
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the relationship between North Korean refugee mothers’perceived home psychological characteristics and ego-resilience of their young children focusing on moderating effect of social support. For this purpose, we sampled 96 North Korean refugee mothers with 3-5 year old children. Home psychological characteristics consisting of family strength, family environment and family functioning, social support, and ego-resilience was analyzed by Pearson correlation analyses and hierarchical regression method. The results of this study were as follows. First, there is a significant correlation between North Korean refugee mothers’perceived home psychological characteristics and ego-resilience of their young children. Second, the perceived factors by North Korean refugee mothers of home psychological characteristics explained their young children’s self-resilience 73.4% of the time and social support had a significant moderating effect. These results suggest that more effective social support to North Korean refugees has to be offered. Not only financial but emotional support is also needed.▶Key Words: North Korean Refugee mothers’perceived family stren gth, North Korean Refugee mothers’perceived family environment, North Korean Refugee moth ers’perceived family functioning, North Korean Refugee mothers’perceived social support, ego-resilience, moderating effect논 문 투 고 2015. 10. 15.수정원고접수 2015. 12. 02.최종게재결정 2015. 12. 11.
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