• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.85-97
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• 2009

Korean society has been facing many challenges and promises resulting from the rapid population shifts into multi-cultural and multi-ethnic family composition. Government strived to respond to the impending demands and needs of Korean cultural families, in terms of marriage and birth, caring and educating children, and labor and work. This paper overviews the current state of Korean multicultural trends and facts in terms of family, marriage, children, and work. It also overarches major issues of multicultural studies of family relations and child development. By wrapping the facts and issues in current discourse and studies, pragmatic policy points were provided and condensed into some suggestions for the policy-making and program implementation.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.439-451
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• 2012

Maternal interaction behavior, language input and children's language of 34 multicultural families were compared with those of ordinary families. MLU's of multicultural mothers and their children were shorter than those of ordinary Korean mothers and children. Positive maternal interaction behaviors of multicultural mothers were significantly lower than those of ordinary mothers. Correlational analyses revealed that there were positive correlations among maternal interaction behaviors, mother's MLU and children' MLU in multicultural families. However, there were no such correlations in ordinary families. Findings suggest language education and support for multicultural mothers be an effective policy for their children's language development.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.171-187
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to identify and illustrate academic trends that can be gleaned from family studies on multicultural families in Korea, and to gain a suggestion of the relatedness between discourse and practice by reviewing research in that field. The results of discourse analysis are as follows: First, research on multicultural families in family studies set limited focal subjects. Second, the research accepts assimilationism as a primary multicultural policy set forward by the Korean Government. Third, the research reflects a more or less conservative consciousness of family maintenance. Fourth, there have been some changes in perspectives from the perception of immigrant women in multicultural families as passive minorities to more active agents. Lastly, the research perceives family life in multicultural families as a project for practice.

• Korean Journal of Legislative Studies
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.179-217
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the integration and separation phenomenon of the legislative network by analyzing the Legislative cosponsorship networks in the process of multicultural, family, and gender legislation. First, I analyzed the Legislative cosponsorship networks centered on the proposed bills in the Women and Family Committee. Second, Analyze the network of joint initiatives for multicultural, family, gender related legislation and representative laws in each field. In this process, we analyze who participates in the Legislative cosponsorship networks and who is the leader of the political coalition. Finally, Understand the shared characteristics and differentiated characteristics of policy networks according to policy issues.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• v.59 no.5
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• pp.447-455
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• 2021

Vivax malaria incidence in Korea is now decreased and showing a low plateau. Nowadays, vivax malaria in Korea is expected to be successfully eliminated with anti-malaria chemotherapy, primaquine, and vector control. The glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is associated with potential hemolytic anemia after primaquine administration. This inborn disorder has a pivotal polymorphism with genetic variants and is the most prevalent X-chromosome-linked disorder. The prevalence of G6PD deficiency was previously reported negligible in Korea. As the population of multicultural families pertaining marriage immigrants and their adolescents increases, it is necessary to check G6PD deficiency for them prior to primaquine treatment for vivax malaria. The prevalence of G6PD variants and G6PD deficiency in multicultural families was performed in 7 counties and 2 cities of Jeollanam-do (Province), Gyeonggi-do, and Gangwon-do. A total of 733 blood samples of multicultural family participants were subjected to test the phenotypic and genetic G6PD deficiency status using G6PD enzyme activity quantitation kit and PCR-based G6PD genotyping kit. The G6PD phenotypic deficiency was observed in 7.8% of male adolescent participants and 3.2% of materfamilias population. Based on the PCR-based genotyping, we observed total 35 participants carrying the mutated alleles. It is proposed that primaquine prescription should seriously be considered prior to malaria treatment.

• The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.105-115
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• 2020

Objectives: The study by analyzing the effects of social withdrawal of adolescents from multicultural families on the relationship between self-esteem and school adjustment, this study aims to find theorical and practical measures to increase school adjustment of adolescent from multicultural familes. Methods: This study utilized the 6th year data of the MAPS conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute. The data used in the analysis were self-esteem, social withdrawal, and school adjustment scale of adolescents from multicultural families. Results: First, the self-esteem of adolescents from multicultural families has a significant positive(+) effect on school adjustment. Second, the self-esteem of adolescents from multicultural families has a significant negative(-) effect on social withdrawal. Third, the social withdrawal of adolescents from multicultural families has a significant negative(-) effect on school adjustment. Fourth, significant influence to have an effect on school adjustment as mediation to be social withdrawal of self-esteem of adolescents from multicultural families. Conclusions: This study is meaningful in that it examined the school adjustment of adolescents from multicultural families in various aspects, such as individual psychological and emotional factors such as self-esteem and environmental factors such as social withdrawal.

• Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.115-124
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the health risk behaviors, mental health and subjective health status of adolescents in multicultural families and monocultural (Korean) families. This study was conducted to prepare basic data for education and policy proposals related to health promotion of adolescents in multicultural families. Methods: The study was a secondary analysis using the raw data of the 15th Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (2019). A complex sample multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted to understand the influence of growing up in a multicultural family on health risk behaviors, mental health and subjective health status by comparing the variables to those of monocultural adolescents. Results: Adolescents from multicultural families had a 3.3 times higher rate of drug use experience, 1.89 times higher rate of sexual experience, and 1.24 times higher rate of not wearing seat belts. In addition, the rate of not washing hands and the rate of suicide attempts were 1.34-1.50 times and 1.62 times higher, respectively, compared to adolescents from monocultural families. Conclusion: This study showed that it is necessary to develop appropriate health promotion programs to solve the problems of drug use, sexual intercourse, not wearing seat belts, not washing hands, and attempting suicides, which are more prevalent among adolescents from multicultural families than from monocultural families. It will serve a basic policy for the long-term development and growth of Korea at this critical time when multicultural adolescents are increasing.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.199-207
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• 2016

The number of multicultural families is on the rise worldwide. In this respect, the central government and municipal governments are also implementing and supporting multicultural-related policies. However, they are in progress, not as services needed for multicultural members but as policy issues. This causes multicultural members to fail to figure out the need of policies supported by the government or local governments, as well as to grasp the desire for what services in need are. In addition to this, many studies regarding multiculture are under way but few studies have been known so far as to multicultural business models. This study has suggested a final business model and strategy methods by designing, comparing and analyzing a business model needed for multicultural members through interviews with professionals and multicultural members with regard to mulcultural policies and examples in Korea.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.115-125
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• 2024

The purpose of this study was to verify the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between family conflict, self-esteem, and life satisfaction perceived by multicultural adolescent. The analysis data used the data of the '2nd MAPS (Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study) 2020' surveyed by the Korea Youth Policy Institute. At the time of the survey, 1,533 multicultural adolescents enrolled in the fifth grade of elementary school were selected as samples. The analysis method was verified for the significance of the indirect effect by technical analysis, correlation analysis, and PROCESS MACRO Model Number 4 with mediating effect and bootstrapping. As a result of the study, first, family conflict perceived by multicultural adolescent negatively affected life satisfaction. Second, self-esteem was partially mediated in the relationship between family conflict and life satisfaction. In other words, it is significant in that it presented policy alternatives and practical programs to improve life satisfaction of multicultural youth.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.29-38
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• 2019

This study suggests that multicultural education should not be limited to educational sites such as kindergartens. Since the multicultural attitudes and consciousness of young children are unconsciously acquired through parents' words and school education, they emphasized the implementation of multicultural education at home and kindergarten. In other words, multicultural education should not only be carried out in the field of education, but also in the homes of children. However, there are still few studies on multicultural education for parents. In this regard, this study highlights the importance of parents on multicultural education by examining the socio-economic status of parents with early childhood children and their actual experiences in multicultural education. To provide basic data.