Impact of Independent will of Unmarried mothers Living in Community after Leaving the Facility on the Quality of Life: Mediating Effect of Social Capital

The purpose of this study is to confirm the mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between unmarried mother's independence willingness and quality of life.The survey subjects were admitted to single-parent family welfare facilities before and after childbirth, but after discharge, a questionnaire was conducted on 234 unmarried mothers currently living in the community.Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were performed on the collected survey data using the SPSS 22.0 program.After verifying the mediating effect through Baron & Kenny's(1986) three-step regression analysis method, the significance of the mediating effect was confirmed by the Sobel test.The research results are as follows.As a result of confirming the mediating effect of network, trust, and participation, which are sub-variables of social capital, in the relationship between the will of unmarried mothers to independence willingness and the quality of life, it was found that network and trust were completely mediated and participation was partially mediated.It was confirmed that even if unmarried mothers showed the same level of independence willingness, their quality of life was affected by the level of social capital.Based on these findings, measures were sought to improve the quality of life of singleparent family welfare facilities and unmarried mothers who had experience in entering and discharging from single-parent family welfare facilities before and after childbirth.Finally, suggestions were made on securing resources for unmarried mother·children families, providing services to cope with complex crisis situations, expanding customized case management projects, and preparing a social service system.