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Social Support and Acculturative Stress in Migrant Workers
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Soon-Hee Lee, Young-Joo Lee, Sook-Young Kim, Shin-Jeong Kim
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J Korean Acad Nurs 2009;39(6):899-910. Published online December 31, 2009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2009.39.6.899
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Purpose
The purpose of this study was to collect basic data on social support and acculturative stress in migrant workers.
Methods
Between August, 2007 and January, 2008 171 immigrant workers completed data collection using a questionnaire. Workers were recruited from 2 churches, one in Seoul and the other in Gyeonggi Province. Mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and Stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze the data.
Results
The average score for social support was 3.73 (±0.65) and for acculturative stress, 2.52 (±0.65). There were significant differences acculturative stress according to gender (t=2.152, p=.033), kind of job (t=2.597, p=.040), and have community or not (t=2.899, p=.005). There was a significant negative correlation between social support and acculturative stress (r=-.270, p=.001). Factors influencing acculturative stress were existence of participants having a community of people from their home country or not (R2=.151, p=.002).
Conclusion
More studies are needed to identify the variables that influence acculturative stress in immigrant workers.
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