귀국 직장인의 민족정체성과 심리사회적 적응의 관계

Abstract

Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the moderated mediating effect of the acculturation strategy on the relationship with the impact of changed ethnic identity on reverse cultural shock and psychological social adaption to adults who returned to work after living abroad.
 Methods The survey was conducted between February 22 and March 27, 2020 on 202 adults who returned to Korea and are working after living abroad for at least 3 years, and collected data that did not consent to the collec-tion and use of personal information, excluding those, 199 copies were used as final analysis data. The mediation effect, the moderation effect and the moderated mediating effect were analyzed through SPSS 25.0 and SPSS Macro.
 Results The results were as follows; The reverse culture shock was significant on the relationship between the ethnic identity and psychological social adaption. Also the moderation effect of assimilation and separation strat-egies was verified on the relationship between reverse cultural shock and psychological social adaption even though there was a limitation in investigating the moderated mediating effect of the integration strategy, which is a sub-strategies of acculturation strategy due to the reliability problem. Lastly, assimilation and separation strategies moderated the mediating effect of reverse cultural shock between internalized ethnic identity and psy-chological social adaption.
 Conclusions These findings showed the impact of ethnic identity and reverse cultural shock on psychological so-cial adaptation, and high level of assimilation and low level of separation strategies were expected to be risks for psychological social adaptation. Finally, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.