Jung-Hyun Kim; Myung-Hee Lee

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Dietary Behavior of Marriage Migrant Women according to Their Nationality in Multicultural Families: Jung-Hyun Kim, Myung-Hee Lee; Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 2016;21(1):53-64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2016.21.1.53
Published online: February 29, 2016

Department of Home Economics Education, PaiChai University, Daejeon, Korea.

Corresponding author: Myung-Hee Lee. Department of Home economics Education, Paichai University, 155-40, Baejae-ro, Seo-gu, Daejeon, 35345, Korea. Tel: (042) 520-5423, Fax: 070-4362-6292, mhlee@pcu.ac.kr

• Received: January 28, 2016 • Revised: February 22, 2016 • Accepted: February 25, 2016

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Abstract

Objectives
Nowadays, the multicultural families make up significant portion of Korean population and communities. Successful re-settling in a new country can be difficult, particularly when there are disparities in dietary behavior compared to home country. The objective of the study was to investigate the dietary behavior of marriage migrant women according to their nationality in multicultural families.
Methods
The primary research was conducted targeting 94 marriage migrant women who came from China (40.4%), Vietnam (26.6%), and other countries except for Japan (33.0%). We investigated their dietary behavior, such as eating attitude and food choice behavior for Korea acculturation. We also studied dietary behavior among 14 selected subjects who had high level of integration and assimilation acculturation patterns by administering the Focus Group Interview (FGI).
Results
The multicultural families had more integration acculturation patterns, which could have been influenced by their nationality. Vietnamese origin has the highest cultural adaptation as marginalization pattern. The common types of Korea acculturation were integration (3.03 ± 1.08), separation (3.10 ± 0.59), marginalization (3.10 ± 0.58), followed by assimilation (2.84 ± 0.51). There were significant differences in the four types of acculturation by marriage immigrant women's country of origin (p<0.05). According to dietary behavior, 'eliminating hunger' was the most important value in a meal. Chinese marriage migrant women, who had higher level of food intake attitude significantly, also considered 'being healthy' an important value. Regarding food choice behavior, Vietnamese had lowest frequency of homeland food intake. Most of marriage immigrant women were satisfied with the Korean food, and need for education was very high with interest for cooking, good nutrition, and managing their children's dietary life.
Conclusions
Coping with a change in dietary behavior is one of the biggest transitional difficulties, and family members may need support to find their familiar food items and to continue their cultural food choice behavior in the local areas. Further researches with quantitative and qualitative analysis are needed to understand the effect of dietary behavior for acculturation in multicultural families.
Keywords: dietary behavior; nationality of marriage migrant women; multicultural family

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by a grant (14162MFDS133) from Ministry of Food and Drug safety in 2014.

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Fig. 1

Research design model

Table 1

General characteristics of the study subjects according to 1^st survey and 2^nd FGI¹⁾

1) FGI : Focus Group Interview

Table 2

Korea acculturation according to the nationality

1) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 3

Eating attitude according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 4

Consideration for food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%), Multiple response

^*: p < 0.05

Table 5

Food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 6

Correlation between the Korea Acculturation Pattern and Dietary Behavior (N=94)

^*: p < 0.05

Table 7

Focus Group Interview (FGI) results according to the nationality

Figure & Data

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Dietary Behavior of Marriage Migrant Women according to Their Nationality in Multicultural Families

Korean J Community Nutr. 2016;21(1):53-64. Published online February 29, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2016.21.1.53

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Fig. 1 Research design model

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Dietary Behavior of Marriage Migrant Women according to Their Nationality in Multicultural Families

Table 1

General characteristics of the study subjects according to 1^st survey and 2^nd FGI¹⁾

1) FGI : Focus Group Interview

Table 2

Korea acculturation according to the nationality

1) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 3

Eating attitude according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 4

Consideration for food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%), Multiple response

^*: p < 0.05

Table 5

Food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 6

Correlation between the Korea Acculturation Pattern and Dietary Behavior (N=94)

^*: p < 0.05

Table 7

Focus Group Interview (FGI) results according to the nationality

Table 1 General characteristics of the study subjects according to 1st survey and 2nd FGI1)

1) FGI : Focus Group Interview

Table 2 Korea acculturation according to the nationality

1) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 3 Eating attitude according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 4 Consideration for food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%), Multiple response

^*: p < 0.05

Table 5 Food choice behavior according to the nationality

1) N (%)

2) Mean±SD

^*: p < 0.05

a,b: significantly different at α=0.05 by Duncan's multiple range test

Table 6 Correlation between the Korea Acculturation Pattern and Dietary Behavior (N=94)