Living Arrangements of Single Parents and Their Children in South Korea

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjoon Park ◽  
Jaesung Choi ◽  
Hyejeong Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Single Parents

scholarly journals Moderating Effects of Loneliness on COVID-19-Related Stress and Anxiety in Middle and Later Life in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 141-141
Author(s):  
Sukyung Yoon ◽  
Soo Chan Choi
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Many people have suffered from psychological distress in the form of stress, loneliness, and anxiety resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic (Havnen et al., 2020; Luchetti et al., 2020). Along with these factors, physical health (hereafter health), resilience, and living arrangements as protective factors were examined. The research aims were to investigate 1) factors affecting the association between COVID-19-related stress (hereafter stress) and anxiety, and 2) moderating effects of loneliness on this association. Data was collected on 450 middle-aged and older adults (ages 45 through 76) living in South Korea during COVID-19. A multi-group path analysis was employed. Measurement invariance was examined by comparing unconstrained and fully constrained models. Both models fit. Moderating effects of loneliness existed. Stress was negatively associated with health and living arrangements for people with both higher and lower levels of loneliness. Health was positively associated with resilience for both groups. Resilience was negatively associated with anxiety for both groups. For people with higher levels of loneliness only, stress and health were negatively associated with resilience and anxiety, respectively. The association between stress and anxiety was significant for both groups. However, the impact of stress on anxiety was significantly larger for people with higher levels of loneliness than for people with lower levels of loneliness. Health practitioners and service providers should develop programs to maintain and promote resilience, social support, and good health among middle-aged and older adults in South Korea to mitigate negative mental health consequences during the pandemic.

Gender Differences in Single Parents’ Living Arrangements and Child Care Time

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 3439-3451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonjoo Lee ◽  
Sandra L. Hofferth
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Single Parents

scholarly journals My Home is my Castle? The Role of Living Arrangements on Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Langenkamp ◽  
Tomás Cano ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
Quantitative Text Analysis

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, social restrictions and social distancing policies forced large parts of social life to take place within the household. However, comparatively little is known about how private living situations shaped individuals experiences of this crisis. To investigate this issue, we analyze how experiences and concerns vary across living arrangements along two dimensions that may be associated with social disadvantage: loneliness and care. In doing so, we employ quantitative text analysis on open-ended questions from survey data on a sample of 1,073 individuals living in Germany. We focus our analyses on four different household structures: living alone, shared living without children, living with a partner and children, and single parents. We find that single parents (who are primarily single mothers) are at high risk of experiencing care-related worries, particularly regarding their financial situation, while individuals living alone are most likely to report feelings of loneliness. Those individuals living in shared houses, with or without children, had the lowest risk of experiencing both loneliness and care-related worries. These findings illustrate that the living situation at home substantially impacts how individuals experienced and coped with the pandemic situation during the first wave of the pandemic.

The Dissolution of Joint Living Arrangements among Single Parents and Children: Does Welfare Make a Difference?

2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Brandon ◽  
Gene A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Parents And Children

scholarly journals My home is my castle? The role of living arrangements on experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Langenkamp ◽  
Tomas Cano ◽  
Christian S. Czymara
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Quantitative Text Analysis ◽  
The Impact

The restrictions implemented to slow down the spread of COVID-19 are leading to noticeable declines in mental health. However, one’s living arrangement may buffer or catalyze the impact of COVID-19’s restrictions. We argue that restrictions may have a stronger impact for those with higher risk of loneliness and those who need to provide childcare. To test these considerations, we employ quantitative text analysis on open-ended questions from novel survey data of a sample of about 1,100 individuals. We examine how worries and loneliness vary across four different household structures: Living alone, shared living without children, living with a partner and children, and single parents. We find that individuals living alone are most likely to report feelings of loneliness, while single parents are at highest risk of experience care related worries, particularly regarding their financial situation. Those sharing a house, with or without children, had lower risks of experiencing both loneliness or care related worries. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

Negotiating Transborder Kinship

Homing ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Family Composition ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Transnational Movements ◽  
Return Migrants ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Family ◽  
Korean Nation

I investigate how the interplay between legal-juridical notions of citizenship and socioculturally mediated belonging affects the family lives of return migrants, as well as how and why transborder ties between returnees and their kin have been maintained or broken. I pay special attention to the production of transborder kinship by paying heed to the lives of families across and within nation-state borders. Here, family composition and living arrangements, especially those involving parents and children, often defy normative understandings of family. I investigate how such arrangements have been necessitated by the transnational movements of my interlocutors and their affective connections with each other and with the Korean nation. And though returnees maneuver their locations in time and space in order to accommodate their family lives, their family lives have nevertheless been interrupted by their migration to South Korea, which has repercussions for their affective topographies.

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