Depression in Married Immigrant Women in Korea

Abstract

Because of the human interchanges among countries, multi-racial and multi-cultural phenomena have become widespread over the past 10 years in Korea. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the degree of depression of married immigrant women in Korea and influential factors of it. Moreover, this study suggests the basic data that can be useful to find out and protect depression of married immigrant women in Korea.665 subjects who are married immigrant women in Korea participated in this study and they were asked to complete the survey research. And the results are as follows: First, the depression accounts for 1.8 out of 4 and the satisfaction of martial relationship is 3.5 out of 5. Moreover, their life satisfaction in Korea indicates 3.49 out of 5. In case of their stress index of cultural adaptation, the average is 2.5 out of 5. It is considered that these results can be the basic data to set up the preventive programs for depression of married immigrant women in Korea.