결혼이주여성의 한국어 수준이 문화적응 스트레스에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of self-esteem and the moderating effect of discrimination experiences in the relationship between the effect of Korean language level on cultural adaptation stress of marriage migrant women. Methods 2,249 married migrant women were selected as research material using data from the 2021 multicultural youth panel survey. And SPSS 26.0 program was used to analyze the data. Through this, descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to determine the normality of data. And, association analysis was conducted to analyze the relationship between major variables. In addition, regression analysis was conducted to verify the mediating effect of self-esteem and the moderating effect of discrimination experience. Results First, if the Korean language level of marriage migrant women is low, the cultural adaptation stress increases. Second, a partial mediating effect was verified that cultural adaptation stress is low if self-esteem is high in the relationship between the effect of the Korean level of married immigrant women on cultural adaptation stress. Third, the moderating effect that cultural adaptation stress is alleviated when there is no discrimination experience was verified in the relationship between the effect of the Korean language level of marriage migrant women on cultural adaptation stress. Conclusions This study showed that the Korean language level and self-esteem should be increased and the discrimination experience should be reduced in order to lower the cultural adaptation stress of marriage migrant women. To this end, various educational programs that can reduce the cultural adaptation stress of marriage migrant women were developed to suggest ways to reduce the cultural adaptation stress of marriage migrant women.