Parenting Efficacy and Health-promoting Behaviors for Children of Mothers from Native and Multicultural Families in Korea

Abstract

Since maternal health-promoting behaviors were different depending on the native country of the mothers, maternal country of origin should be considered in designing programs for improving maternal health-promoting behaviors for their children. In addition, increasing the level of parenting efficacy can be an effective way for improvement of maternal health-promoting behaviors.

Factors influencing parenting efficacy of Asian immigrant, first‐time mothers: A cross‐sectional, correlational survey

“…Interestingly, our results showed that parenting efficacy was significantly higher in Filipino mothers than Vietnamese mothers, which is similar to the finding of a previous study (Kim, Oh, Yoon, & Lee, ). However, some studies reported no significant differences in the parenting efficacy related to the various maternal countries of origin (Chung & Bang, ; Kim & Lee, ), while other studies reported differences; Vietnamese immigrant women had higher parenting efficacy than women from other countries (Bae et al, ). Therefore, further studies are required to clarify whether parenting efficacy differs according to immigrant women's nationalities, and if so, what the reason for the differences might be.…”