Immigrant women’s acculturation stress and coping strategies in Korea: A qualitative analysis |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA;2. Department of Physiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA;1. Extreme Environments Laboratory, Department of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2ER, UK;2. Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 4059, Australia;1. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;2. The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States;3. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States;4. College of Nursing, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;5. Department of School Nursing and Health Education, Osaka Kyoiku University, Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan;6. Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan;7. Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States;8. The First Department of Internal Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan;9. Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States;10. Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, South Korea;11. Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan;1. Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia;2. Atlanta Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Research Service Line, Decatur, Georgia;3. Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia;4. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this study was to explore the coping strategies used by migrant women experiencing acculturation stress in Korea. A qualitative content analysis of 20 transcribed individual interviews was used to describe and explore women’s experiences of acculturation into a Korean family and Korean culture. The findings could be summarized by the theme “A life with a family rooted in the 2nd homeland,” consisting of the following coping strategies: agreeing on cultural differences, accepting one’s limitations, respecting one’s own decision, sharing problems, learning about the Korean culture, enjoying one’s homeland culture, caring about identity diffusion, and helping survival. The results showed that the women experienced considerable acculturation stress, and they made tremendous efforts to align themselves with the Korean culture and with women’s lives in a Korean family. The processes and strategies that these women used to manage acculturation stress can be used by professionals to develop empirical guidelines to help other women experiencing acculturation stress. More research on various acculturation conditions and populations is required to generalize the results of this study. |
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| Keywords: | Coping Culture Migrant Qualitative research Stress Women |
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