AND KOREAN MOTHERS IN KOREA

Cho, Anna. The relationship between maternal stress and mothers’ perceptions of their preschool children’s social behaviors: A cross-cultural study of immigrant Korean mothers in the United States and Korean mothers in Korea. Doctor of Education (Early Childhood), August 2007, 180 pp., 21 tables, 3 figures, references, 257 titles. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of maternal stress as it relates to the mothers ’ perceived social behaviors of their preschool children in both immigrant Korean families in the US and Korean families in Korea. The subjects included 49 immigrant Korean mothers in the US and 52 Korean mothers in Seoul, Korea. This study is relevant to current research because of the dramatically increasing Korean immigrants in the US and needed information concerning unique cultural and psychosocial needs of Korean-Americans