• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.1049-1069
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to examine post-divorce adjustment and new partnership of immigrant single mother after divorce. 4 immigrant single mothers from Vietnam were interviewed and data were analyzed by qualitative method. The results were as follows. First, immigrant single mothers coped with stress after divorce through sending their children to Vietnam, working and remittance. Second, they began dating a new man in the work place who were of various nationalities, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Uzbekistan and developed partnership to remarry, cohabit or date with deep intimacy. Third, single immigrant mothers in various partnership like remarriage, cohabitation or dating were satisfied with intimate and loving relationships and support from both sides parents and the birth of new child. However, participants were anxious about the new partner's favoritism toward the biological child and discrimination against the new partner with an unfamiliar cultural background, for example, being from a like a Muslim country. The results suggested immigrant women after divorce showed various partnership on a path towards marriage and that we should pay attention to the aspects of change in multicultural families after divorce.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.479-487
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• 2014

Purpose: This study was a grounded theory research aimed at generating a substantive theory that accounts for the explanatory social processes in which immigrant Korean single-mother families were engaged in the United States. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with 15 immigrant Korean single mothers who were living with children under 18 years of age at the time of the interviews. Data collection guided by theoretical sampling and concurrent constant comparative analysis of the transcribed data was conducted to identify the core social process. Results: The emerged core social process was "living for the children," which represented the driving process by which these women made transition to their new lives as single-mother families. The major task throughout the entire transition was re-creating their families. The women's transition involved practical and psychological transitions. The practical transition involved three stages: assuring family survival, struggling between the father role and the mother role, and stabilizing. The psychological transition involved becoming strong and settling in with a new supportive network. Conclusion: Study results added to the literature by elaborating the women's emphasis on maternal identity and the resilience-provoking nature of the women's transitions.

• 한국가족복지학
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• 제57호
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• pp.39-67
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• 2017

본 연구는 한부모 이주여성의 삶의 의미와 본질을 자녀양육 경험을 중심으로 깊이 있게 살펴보는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 한부모 이주여성 7명을 연구 참여자로 선정하여, 2015년12월부터 약 2개월간 일대일 심층면접을 진행하였다. 자료 분석은 연구 참여자의 고유하고 독특한 경험의 본질을 파악하기 위해 Giorgi의 현상학적 연구 방법을 적용했다. 분석 결과, 201 개의 의미단위, 29개의 하위 구성요소 및 13개의 구성요소를 도출했으며 이는 '기대와 달리힘들고 어려운 결혼 생활', '내면의 상처 때문에 자녀와 갈등', '이주여성이자 한부모로서 겪어내야 하는 이중고', '견디고 이겨내며 가장이 되어감', '어머니의 능동적 사랑과 그 원동력인자녀'의 5개 본질적 주제로 구조화되었다. 연구를 통해 파악한 한부모 이주여성의 삶과 경험의본질을 바탕으로 관련 정책의 개선 및 사회복지 실천방안을 제언하였다.