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Mother-Child Discrepancies in Language Perceptions and Heritage Culture Acceptance among Children of Marriage-Migrant Women

  • The Journal of Multicultural Society
  • 2026, 19(3), pp.551~579
  • DOI : 10.14431/jms.2026.10.19.3.551
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : August 15, 2026
  • Accepted : August 31, 2026
  • Published : October 30, 2026

Youngwon Chae 1

1서울과학기술대학교 혁신융합대학사업단

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ABSTRACT

This study examined how congruence and discrepancies between marriage-migrant mothers’ and their children’s perceptions of the child’s heritage-language proficiency, and between their self-reported language use with each other, were associated with children’s heritage culture acceptance. Using Waves 1-6 of the second Multicultural Adolescents Panel Study (MAPS 2), multilevel polynomial regression and response surface analysis (RSA) were conducted. In the language-use model, only the direction of the discrepancy between mothers’ and children’s self-reported language use was significantly associated with heritage culture acceptance. In contrast, in the heritage-language proficiency model, both the slopes and curvatures along the lines of congruence and incongruence were significant. Heritage culture acceptance was higher when mothers and children both perceived the child’s heritage-language proficiency as high and when children rated their proficiency higher than did their mothers. These findings suggest that bilingual environments should be examined by distinguishing language proficiency from language use and by considering both mothers’ and children’s perceptions. They also highlight heritage culture acceptance as a distinct dimension of cultural adaptation alongside adaptation to Korean culture.

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