The Mediating Effect of the Ego Resilience of Children in the Relationship between the Parenting Stress of Mothers and the School Life Adaptation of Children: Focusing on Monocultural and Multicultural Families

This study examines the effects of the parenting stress of mothers and the ego resilience of children on the school life adaptation of children in monocultural and multicultural families. For this purpose, samples of multicultural families were collected from various institutions and including multicultural family camps and cultural centers, and samples of monocultural families from social welfare centers. A total of 531 surveys were conducted with 268 multicultural families and 263 monocultural families. The data were analyzed using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0. The results of this study are as follows. First, The difference verification result showed that the multicultural families had a higher significant difference in parenting stress than that of the monocultural families. Regarding school life adaptation, the monocultural families had a higher significant difference than that of the multicultural families. There is no significant difference between the two groups regarding ego resilience of children. Second, the parenting stress of mothers had a significant negative effect on the ego resilience of children and school life adaptation of children. the ego resilience had a significant positive effect on the school life adaptation. Third, the ego resilience of children had a mediating effect on the parenting stress of mothers and the school life adaptation of children. Fourth, The negative impact of parenting stress on ego resilience of children was stronger for multicultural families. The positive impact of ego resilience of children on school life adaptation was higher among children from multicultural families. This study is meaningful in that it has overcome the limitations of research that only targeted one of mother and child by comparing multicultural families with monocultural families. It is significant in that the parenting stress has confirmed that there is a difference in ego resilience of children or influence on school life adaptation. Based on this, the government proposed measures to help multicultural families who have difficulties in raising their children.