2014, Vol.21, No.4

Korea Social Policy Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.47

pISSN : 1226-0525
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kasp

This study aims to integrate the relationship between martial satisfaction of marriage migrant women and related variables through metal analysis and suggest a multicultural policy, based on the result. Martial satisfaction of marriage migrant women showed the most significant relationship when they formed positive relationships with parents-in-law, and there was a high relationship between social support and martial satisfaction. Also, the relationship with martial satisfaction was high, when marriage migrant women highly recognized family health, had a low parenting stress and positively recognized child and martial relationships. Among a lot of related variables, academic background, age of marriage migrant women, educational background of spouses, gender role attitudes and recognitions of marriage migrant women and spouses showed extremely low relationships with martial satisfaction. Also, Korean language ability, marriage path and marriage duration of marriage migrant women showed low relationships. In addition, occupations, remittance to marriage migrant women’s parents, the number of children, age and occupations of spouses were not statistically significant. Based on these findings, practical discussions for marriage migrant women’s marriage adjustment and support are as follows. There is a need to develop education for parents-in-law and a multicultural counseling support policy for mothers-in-lawand daughters-in-law, construct an associated system of social support, develop a life cycle-based educational support policy, expand child-rearing support service and separate education from counseling.

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to improvement of National BasicLivelihood Security(NBLS) scheme by analyzing the structure of Seoul-Type BasicLivelihood Security systematically and discussing its achievements and limitations. To theses ends, this study compared the reformation plan of central government forcustomized benefit systems with the Seoul-type program, thereby determiningstructural features of the program, and examined its performances and tasksthrough in-depth interviews with some officials who practice the program in thefields. Seoul-type program has different structure in contrast with the presentscheme and the reformation plan as it relaxes the selection criteria of family supportobligation rule and the methods for converting assets into incomes, and in thisrespect, it can be regarded as a significant contribution to, to some extent, solvingthe problem of excluded people from the public assistance system and guaranteeingthe minimum standards of living for those in poverty. However, it still has somelimitations, so it is necessary to discuss to find a way for the fundamentalcountermeasures.

The purpose of this research was to develop the scale of emotional self-sufficiencyfor the participant in the self-sufficiency program. For this, the current study wasbased on the preceding research which had investigated emotional self-sufficiency,expert delphi study. And 25 preliminary questions were made. After that, 287 peopleparticipated to the exploratory factor analysis and a validity of scale in six factorsand 25 questions was verified. Also, the scale of emotional self sufficiency wasascertained in consideration of goodness of fit through the confirmatory factoranalysis. The concrete factors consist of a positive attitude for the life, human relation,rewarding job, self-control, will of independence, and self-image. Finally, thisresearch proposed the direction for improvement about the self-sufficiency throughthe developed self sufficiency scale.