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Cultural and psycological adjustment andstress coping strategies: North refugees in South korean cultures

Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues / Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues, (P)1229-0661; (E)1229-0661
2004, v.10 no.1, pp.147-163





& (2004). Cultural and psycological adjustment andstress coping strategies: North refugees in South korean cultures. Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues, 10(1), 147-163.
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Abstract

The present research investigated and compared stress coping strategies of North Korean refugees with those of South Koreans in the purpose to predict and prepare psychological conflicts expected to occur during the Korean reunification. Adapted from Han, Hur, Chae, and Kim(2001), North Korean refugees recorded their coping strategies that they would employ in stressful situations varying in term of three aspects of stress causes - 2(locus: internal/external) × 2(stability: temporal/enduring) × 2(context: individual/interpersonal) - and the responses were classified in terms of three dimensions(active/passive, approach/avoidance, cognitive/affective/ behavioral). In the temporal stress situations, adaptive North Korean refugees preferred active over passive, approaching over avoiding, and behavioral over cognitive/affective stress coping strategies more than maladaptive North Korean refugees did. Also, in the stressful situations caused by external causes, they were more likely to take active rather than passive, approaching rather than avoiding copying. Although active copying strategies were preferred to passive ones by adaptive North Korean refugees in individual stressful situations, approaching copying strategies were preferred to avoiding ones by them in interpersonal stressful situations. These findings were found to be different from the pattern of South Korean's stress coping strategies in the same situations. In conclusion, the differences were discussed in the view of psychological integration during Korean reunification.

keywords
Reunification, stress, coping strategy, North Korean refugees, psychological adaptation, depression, Reunification, stress, coping strategy, North Korean refugees, psychological adaptation, depression, 통일, 스트레스, 대처양식, 북한 이탈주민, 심리적 적응, 우울감, 귀인

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