초록

용어보기논문에서 용어와 풀이말을 자동 추출한 결과로, 시범 서비스 중입니다. AI-Helper

Abstract ▼ AI-Helper

Attending to North Korean refugees, this study investigated how immigrant minorities’ perceptions of hostile media coverage and public opinion influence their psychological adaptation, especially their social alienation and life satisfaction in the host country. This study also examined the direct...

Attending to North Korean refugees, this study investigated how immigrant minorities’ perceptions of hostile media coverage and public opinion influence their psychological adaptation, especially their social alienation and life satisfaction in the host country. This study also examined the direct or indirect effects of media uses and interpersonal communication on immigrants’ hostile media perceptions and psychological adaptation. According to a face-to-face survey of a total of 316 refugees who had been stayed more than 2 years in South Korea, it was first found that either Korean media uses or interpersonal contacts with South Korean people or other North Korean refugees did not significantly influence the respondents’ hostile media perceptions. Second, hostile media perceptions negatively affected the refugees’ psychological adaptation to South Korean society through hostile opinion perceptions. In other words, the more the refugees perceived the Korean mainstream media as hostile toward themselves, the more likely they were to assume that South Korean people would hold a negative and biased view of North Korean refugees. Furthermore, such hostile opinion perceptions significantly increased the refugees’ social alienation while marginally decreasing their satisfaction with the life in South Korea. Third, television viewing significantly increased the sense of alienation among the refugees, whereas informational and affective support from the interpersonal contacts with South Korean people decreased it. On the other hand, both newspaper reading and interpersonal communication with South Korean people had positive impacts on the refugees’ life satisfaction.

Keyword