This study investigated marital satisfaction among Korean immigrant spouses. It was hypothesized that marital satisfaction could be predicted from level of acculturation, the number of years of residence, status inconsistency, annual income, educational level, decision making, household tasks, and communication problems. / This study used a number of existing measures. These included the Marital Satisfaction Scale (Roach, Frazier, & Bowden, 1981), the Short Acculturation Scale (Marin, Sabogal, Marin, Otero-Sabogal, & Perez-Stable, 1987), the Decision Power Index (Blood & Wolfe, 1960), the Task Participation Index (Blood & Wolfe, 1960), and the Conjugal Understanding Measure (deTurck & Miller, 1986a). Additionally, other more general demographic information was gathered including respondent's income, gender, religion, educational background, residence year in the United States, occupation, and employment status. / This present study collected data from both married men and women. Using a snowball sampling strategy, questionnaires were sent to 32 acquaintances of the investigator living in one of 23 urban areas. Thirty-two research assistants mailed the questionnaires to their friends or relatives. Data were anonymously returned directly to the investigator through mailed questionnaires by a pre-paid return envelope that was provided. Four hundred questionnaires were distributed to known acquaintances, 304 were returned for a response rate of 76%. Results showed that level of acculturation was significantly associated to marital satisfaction for Korean immigrant husbands, but not for wives. Marital decision-making was significantly related to marital satisfaction for Korean immigrant wives but not for husbands. Both level of acculturation and marital decision making accounted for only 3% of the variance in marital satisfaction. For both husbands and wives, conjugal communication problems were the best predictor of marital satisfaction (16% and 37% of variance explained, respectively). None of the other independent variables (the number of years of residence, status inconsistency, income, educational level and division of household tasks) was significantly associated with marital satisfaction. / It is intended that these findings will contribute to social work practice by providing additional knowledge of the characteristics of Korean immigrant spouses in the United States. The study was limited by the nonprobability sample; results must be interpreted with caution. / Future research needs to include in-law pressures, sponsorship of immigration, sexuality, infidelity problems, employment status of respondents, length of marriage, incongruence of personality, value incongruence, problems related to children, and conjugal violence as factors related to marital satisfaction. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A, page: 4557. / Major Professor: Dianne H. Montgomery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77584 |
| Contributors | Park, Tai-Young., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 219 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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