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Predictors of Acculturation Types among Marriage Migrant Women

결혼이주여성의 문화적응유형과 영향요인

  • Lee, Jiyeon (Department of Child Development & Family Studies, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chung, Grace H. (Department of Child Development & Family Studies/Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yoo, Joan P. (Department of Social Welfare, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2014.03.06
  • Accepted : 2014.05.25
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

This study aimed to identify predictors of acculturation types among marriage migrant women at the individual and dominant society levels. To accomplish this goal, we recruited marriage migrant women from China and Vietnam, classified their acculturation types according to their scores on acculturation attitudes, and performed multinomial logistic regression on acculturation types by entering marriage migrant women's individual and dominant society level factors as covariates based on previous research. The results showed that most of the participants were classified under integration(N=376), followed by assimilation(N=66), separation(N=60) and marginalization(N=48). Lower household income, lower sense of mastery, weaker ethnic identity and lower social support predicted assimilation as compared to integration. Less education, higher household income, weaker ethnic identity, lower family satisfaction and lower social support predicted separation as compared to integration. Finally, as compared to integration, marginalization was predicted by lower sense of mastery, lower ethnic identity and lower social support. This study expands the current scholarship on acculturation by examining acculturation as an indicator of the psychosocial adaptation of immigrants and by identifying factors that predict specific acculturation types among marriage migrant women.

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