title: Depression in non-Korean women residing in South Korea following marriage to Korean men.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the study was to examine the roles of acculturative stress, life satisfaction, and language literacy in depression in non-Korean women residing in South Korea following marriage to Korean men.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was performed, using an anonymous, self-reporting questionnaire. A total of 173 women were selected using a proportional stratified random sampling method. The relation between acculturation, depression, language literacy, life satisfaction and socio-demographic variables and the predictors of depression among participants were analyzed. The analysis included descriptive statistics and hierarchical multiple regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the participants, 9.2% had depression, which was almost twice the rate of depression found in the general Korean population. In hierarchical multiple regression analysis, acculturative stress (beta=-.325, P<.001) and life satisfaction (beta=-.282, P=.003) were significantly associated with the level of depression. This final model was statistically significant and life satisfaction, acculturative stress, language literacy accounted for 31.0% (adjusted R(2)) of the variance in the depression score (P<.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Elevated acculturative stress and less life satisfaction were significantly associated with a higher level of depression in migrant wives in Korea. Implications for practice and research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Daegu Haany University, Daegu, South Korea; Women's Mental Health Research, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. hskim@dhu.ac.kr
authors.forename: Hyun-Sil
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hun-Soo
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D056910:Republic of Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology