title: Marital power process of Korean men married to foreign women: a qualitative study.
abstract: This study explored how Korean men married to migrant women construct meaning around married life. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 10 men who had had been married to migrant women for ≥ 2 years. Data collection and analysis were performed concurrently using a grounded theory approach. The core category generated was the process of sustaining a family unit. The men came to understand the importance of a distribution of power within the family in sustaining the family unit. Constituting this process were four stages: recognizing an imbalance of power, relinquishing power, empowering, and fine-tuning the balance of power. This study provides important insight into the dynamics of marital power from men's point of view by demonstrating a link between the way people adjust to married life and the process by which married couples adjust through the distribution and redistribution of power.
authors.affiliation: College of Health Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. mykim0808@ewha.ac.kr
authors.forename: Miyoung
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Gyeong Sook
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Windsor
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology*; D005195:Family Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011209:Power, Psychological; D036301:Qualitative Research; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D014171:Transients and Migrants