Household decision-making and the mental well-being of marriage-based immigrant women in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed the association between household decision-making and mental well-being among Asian immigrant women residing in Korea. We also investigated if the impact varies by the regional origin and examined potential factors for joint decision-making.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional study using the Korean National Survey of Multicultural Families 2015 and logistic regression. We analyzed data from 11,188 married immigrant women ages 20 to 59 who were originally from East Asia or Southeast/South Asia and co-living with their spouses. We defined households as joint-decision, wife-decision, or husband-decision based on who decides how living expenses are spent. Mental well-being encompassed a depressive mood for two consecutive weeks, and life and marital sat

SUBMITTER: Lee E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863252 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature