| Summary: | 碩士 === 佛光大學 === 社會學系 === 98 === The purpose of the study was to explore, first, the situation of female immigrants’ family status, social supports, and cultural identifications, second, with different background variables, the difference of the situations mentioned above, third, how the different background variables influence female immigrants’ family status, social supports, and cultural identifications. Female immigrants in literacy classes and mixed classes, which were opened by twenty-two local governments in Taiwan, were chosen as the respondents in this research.
The study adopted questionnaire as the main method of conducting the research. After studying the related documents for reference, I compiled my own questionnaire on “How Family Status and Social Supports Affect Female Immigrants’ Cultural Identification” for study targets to fulfill. By stratified cluster sampling, 600 questionnaires were sent out in total, and 566 ones were collected back in return; among them, valid questionnaires were 543, so the response rate was 91%. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, 1-Way ANOVA, T-test, and multiple regressions with SPSS12.0. According to the data, there were seven findings as the followings:
1.When female immigrants’ family status and social supports were in so-so level, their cultural identifications were in middle leaning toward good level.
2.Female immigrants’ family status were higher under the following situations: in high educational level, having a career, having stable incomes, through relatives’ or friends’ introductions or freedom to choose their spouses, having two or under two children, personal incomes over ten thousand dollars, spouses working as soldiers, public officials, or teachers, only living with their husbands in a harmonious family atmosphere.
3.Female immigrants’ social supports were higher under the following situations: in high educational level, as house wives, helping family business, through relatives’ or friends’ introductions or freedom to choose their spouses, living in a harmonious family atmosphere.
4.Female immigrants’ cultural identifications were higher under the following situations: through relatives’ or friends’ introductions or freedom to choose their spouses, fully understanding the languages spoken in their husbands’ families, only living with their husbands, living in a harmonious family atmosphere with husbands, children, parents-in-law, and other relatives.
5.Factors of affecting female immigrants’ family status: age, educational level, career, numbers of children they have, personal incomes, spouse’ career, family type, family atmosphere.
6.Factors of affecting female immigrants’ social supports: nationality, career, the channel for getting married, family type, family atmosphere.
7.Factors of affecting female immigrants’ cultural identifications: language competences, personal incomes, family atmosphere, family incomes, the decisions-making, self-determinations, and the division of housework in their families, emotional supports in their social supports.
Finally, the result of this study, besides offering suggestions for governments, schools, and families with female immigrants, also provides a direction and limitation for following researchers.
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