부산대학교 도서관

This study examines environmental factors that affect the cultural adjustment stress experienced by adolescent immigrants. By applying Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system model, this study analyzes the environmental factors through the hierarchical multiple regression analysis. It Is a study to derive meaningful social and practical implication and suggest its results in the policy level. It was analyzed by using the survey data of 279 adolescent immigrants between the age of 10 to 20 who lived or attended schools in Gyeonggi-do Province. The main results are as follows. First, Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system model showed its potential applicability on analyzing environmental factors of adolescent immigrants. Second, the research model of this study, which examined factors affecting the cultural adjustment stress, showed that the model 3, which had all of the individual, family, and school factors, showed the maximum explanation in the hierarchical regression analysis. Third, parents’ support of family factors and sense of school belonging of school factors decreased the cultural adjustment stress. In this study, only the environmental variables in microsystem level was tested because of the limitation of data. Further research is needed to examine the impact of environmental variables affecting the cultural adjustment stress on mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem levels afterwards.