Structural Relationship between School Life Adaptation of a Student in a Multicultural Family and related Variables
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Introduction: This study aimed to identify latent profiles based on familial ethnic socialization, peer discrimination, and school multicultural climate among biethnic adolescents in South Korea and to examine how the emerged profiles were related to their life satisfaction.We also examined how biethnic affirmation interacted with the profiles in predicting life satisfaction. Methods: Questionnaire data from the first wave of the Panel Survey of Korean Multicultural Youth Adjustment was used. The sample consisted of 358 biethnic adolescents in 5th and 6th grade in South Korea. The meanage was 11.41 years old. Approximately 60% of the participants were in 5th grade and 51.68% were girls. Results: The results of LPA showed that familial ethnic socialization, peer discrimination, and school multicultural climate formed two distinct profiles in the current sample. These profiles were characterized as contexts of high and low biethnic acceptance. Biethnic adolescents in the context of high biethnic acceptance were significantly more satisfied with their lives than those in the context of low biethnic acceptance.Further, the positive association between biethnic iaffirmation and life satisfaction was more pronounced among adolescents in the context of low biethnic acceptance. Conclusions: Findings suggest the importance of promoting biethnic acceptance across family, peer, and school settings for adolescents' biethnic affirmation and life satisfaction.Being a biethnic minority in a predominantly monoethnic society, such as South Korea, poses unique challenges for biethnic adolescents of multicultural families. According to Support for Multicultural Families Act enacted in 2008, multicultural families in South Korea are families formed via international marriage between native Korean citizens and foreign immigrants of non-Korean heritage. As of 2015, 81.5% of the multicultural families consist of Korean husbands and immigrant wives, predominantly from other Asian countries . The remaining 18.5% is a distinctly different group composed of Korean wives and non-Korean husbands. These families are different from the families of Korean husbands and immigrant wives in terms of marriage and immigration backgrounds. For this reason, the present study focuses specifically on biethnic adolescents with Korean fathers, who are members of the more dominant and mainstream ethnic majority group, and with immigrant mothers from China, Japan, Vietnam, or Philippines, who are members of an ethnic minority in South Korea.Historically, South Koreans have embraced the myth of Korea being a monoethnic nation and regarded mixed heritage as ignoble
Introduction: This study aimed to identify latent profiles based on familial ethnic socialization, peer discrimination, and school multicultural climate among biethnic adolescents in South Korea and to examine how the emerged profiles were related to their life satisfaction.We also examined how biethnic affirmation interacted with the profiles in predicting life satisfaction. Methods: Questionnaire data from the first wave of the Panel Survey of Korean Multicultural Youth Adjustment was used. The sample consisted of 358 biethnic adolescents in 5th and 6th grade in South Korea. The meanage was 11.41 years old. Approximately 60% of the participants were in 5th grade and 51.68% were girls. Results: The results of LPA showed that familial ethnic socialization, peer discrimination, and school multicultural climate formed two distinct profiles in the current sample. These profiles were characterized as contexts of high and low biethnic acceptance. Biethnic adolescents in the context of high biethnic acceptance were significantly more satisfied with their lives than those in the context of low biethnic acceptance.Further, the positive association between biethnic iaffirmation and life satisfaction was more pronounced among adolescents in the context of low biethnic acceptance. Conclusions: Findings suggest the importance of promoting biethnic acceptance across family, peer, and school settings for adolescents' biethnic affirmation and life satisfaction.Being a biethnic minority in a predominantly monoethnic society, such as South Korea, poses unique challenges for biethnic adolescents of multicultural families. According to Support for Multicultural Families Act enacted in 2008, multicultural families in South Korea are families formed via international marriage between native Korean citizens and foreign immigrants of non-Korean heritage. As of 2015, 81.5% of the multicultural families consist of Korean husbands and immigrant wives, predominantly from other Asian countries . The remaining 18.5% is a distinctly different group composed of Korean wives and non-Korean husbands. These families are different from the families of Korean husbands and immigrant wives in terms of marriage and immigration backgrounds. For this reason, the present study focuses specifically on biethnic adolescents with Korean fathers, who are members of the more dominant and mainstream ethnic majority group, and with immigrant mothers from China, Japan, Vietnam, or Philippines, who are members of an ethnic minority in South Korea.Historically, South Koreans have embraced the myth of Korea being a monoethnic nation and regarded mixed heritage as ignoble
Family Life Experience and Life Satisfaction of Multicultural Families with School-Aged Children
The purpose of this study was to examine the general characteristics and the variety of family life experiences related to the life satisfaction of multicultural families with school-aged children. Data were drawn from the first wave of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey conducted in 2010 and developed by the National Youth Policy Institute. Further, the sample for this study consisted of 95 multicultural families who met the requirements. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, the t-test, analysis of variance, and multiple regression using SPSS ver. 18.0. The main results showed that family life experiences that were made up of 5 domains, specifically time, leisure, household economy, health, and child education had a broad range of levels.In addition, family life experiences differed according to the general characteristics of multicultural families with school-aged children, such as mother's employment status, number of children, father's employment status and education level, and family composition. Lastly, their life satisfaction was significantly predicted by the father's employment status and health, children's age, children's education, and leisure in the order of significance. These findings suggested the need to expand the social intervention range for multicultural families with school-aged children, particularly in terms of family leisure and children's school life adaptation.
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