Level of Acculturation and Acculturative Stress Perceived by Asian Immigrant Women Married to South Korean Men

Kim, Micah Angela; Ham, Ok Kyung; Cho, Insook; Lee, Eun Jin; Lee, Bo Gyeong

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“…In this study, variables were designed so that acculturation types of Chinese immigrants living in Korea were used as an independent variable and adjustment to South Korean society was used as a dependent variable, and acculturative stress was input as a parameter to survey mediating effects on the causal relationships between the foregoing variables. The acculturation types of Chinese immigrants were composed of four subfactors, which are integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization based on the studies conducted by Berry (2001) [54] and [31]. Both acculturative stress and adjustment to South Korean society were regarded as single factors.…”

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Effects of Acculturation Types on Acculturative Stress and Adjustment to South Korean Society: Focusing on Chinese Immigrants

Jung

2022

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This study aims to empirically analyze the effects of acculturation types of Chinese immigrants who have settled in South Korea on their acculturative stress and adjustment to South Korean society. For this, 200 Chinese immigrants residing in Korea were surveyed. Of these, 12 were excluded from the survey for insincere or omitted responses, and the final 188 were surveyed. The research results are as follows: First, the effects of the types of acculturation of Chinese immigrants on their acculturative stress were analyzed. According to the results, among the subfactors of acculturation type, integration and assimilation had significant negative effects on acculturative stress, and marginalization had significant positive effects. Second, the effects of immigrants’ acculturative stress on their adjustment to South Korean society were analyzed, and it was found that their acculturative stress had significant negative effects on their adjustment to South Korean society. Third, the effects of immigrants’ acculturation types on their adjustment to South Korean society were analyzed. Among the subfactors of the acculturation types, integration and assimilation were found to have significant positive effects on adjustment to South Korean society, while marginalization had significant negative effects. Fourth, the mediating effect of acculturative stress on the relationship between the integration of Chinese immigrants and their adjustment to South Korean society was analyzed. As a result, it was found that the integration, separation, and marginalization of immigrants had significant indirect effects on their adjustment to South Korean society through acculturative stress. This study can be regarded as meaningful in that it presented the acculturation types necessary for immigrants, who are steadily increasing in South Korea in this era of globalization, to relieve the acculturative stress they feel in an unfamiliar foreign country and adjust to South Korean society.

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“…The changes in cultural situations and conflicts experienced by female marriage immigrants at home cause acculturative stress, and when an individual's ability to cope with the stress reaches the limit, they experience psychological difficulties such as confusion, anxiety, depression, loneliness, and alienation [31].…”

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Effects of Acculturation Types on Acculturative Stress and Adjustment to South Korean Society: Focusing on Chinese Immigrants

Jung

2022

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“…Ego-resilience was construed as an individualized, integrated coping resource that leads to personal adaptive capacity, which increases physical, psychological, and social well-being (Jeong & Kim, 2015). Acculturative stress decreases psychological, somatic, and social health status that, under transitory conditions, causes poor acculturation (M. A. Kim et al, 2022).…”

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Acculturation Among Chinese Married Immigrant Women in South Korea: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis

Jin,

Choi

2023

J Transcult Nurs

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine acculturation and the associated factors among Chinese immigrant married women in South Korea. Methodology: Data collected from 220 participants through an online survey at four health family support centers in South Korea were analyzed in an acculturation model, which included family environment, ego-resilience, acculturative stress, stress-coping style, and acculturation. Results: The fit indices of the modified model satisfied the recommended levels. Among the variables, ego-resilience (β = 0.34, p < .001) and acculturative stress (β = −0.65, p < .001) directly affected acculturation. Family environment (β = 0. 35, p = .001) indirectly influenced acculturation through acculturative stress and stress-coping style. The explanatory power of the variables was 80.7%. Discussion: The results confirmed the usefulness of the acculturation model that provides a theoretical basis for improving acculturation in married immigrant women.

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Jewish Women, Native-Born and Migrants, in Brussels: Social Integration, “Bubbles” and Acculturation

Lev Ari,

Tzadik

2024

Cont Jewry

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The purpose of this study is to compare two groups of Jewish women, native-born and migrants, who reside in Brussels regarding their social integration into native-born Jewish and non-Jewish communities and the acculturation strategies they employ. It seems that Brussels is not as socially and culturally open, as perceived by the interviewees. Hence, the social networks of women in our study, as well as their acculturation patterns, differ in degree of separation between native-born Jewish women, non-Israeli immigrants and Israeli immigrants. The former maintain social networks characterized by fluid boundaries between them and the majority society, whereas non-Israeli immigrants are characterized by shared, not very dense networks with the native-born Jewish community and diasporic networks. Finally, Israeli women are characterized by almost completely closed social networks, which can be defined as a distinct “Israeli bubble.” As for their acculturation strategies, native-born women are those who are more integrated among non-Jews and native-born Jews, as expected from their familiarity with the culture and their long-term interactions, despite being partially marginalized as minority. Migrant women are less integrated and more separated from both native-born Jews and – to a larger extent – from non-Jews; so are Israelis. Social networks which gradually become communities are mainly created by women and maintained by them over the years. Therefore, the study of social networks, their structure and construction through daily interactions, and their contribution to the ethnic-diasporic community building have become the source of women’s strength in the host country – as immigrants and as a native-born minority group.

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Level of Acculturation and Acculturative Stress Perceived by Asian Immigrant Women Married to South Korean Men

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Effects of Acculturation Types on Acculturative Stress and Adjustment to South Korean Society: Focusing on Chinese Immigrants

Effects of Acculturation Types on Acculturative Stress and Adjustment to South Korean Society: Focusing on Chinese Immigrants

Acculturation Among Chinese Married Immigrant Women in South Korea: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis

Jewish Women, Native-Born and Migrants, in Brussels: Social Integration, “Bubbles” and Acculturation

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