Authors : Kwang Mook Choi, Yeoun Kyoung Hwang and Chang Seek Lee
Abstract: This research was conducted to verify the impact of efficacy, social networks and hope among 488 Foreign working people in Korea on their adjustment to a new society collected data were analyzed using statistical programs of SPSS PC+Win. 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. The study performed frequency, reliability and correlation analysis, structural equation modeling and Sobel’s test. The results of the study are as follows. First, there were statistically significant positive correlations between self-efficacy, hope and social networks. Also, there was a significant negative correlation between communication, agency thinking and pathway thinking. In addition, adaptation to the society had a significant negative correlation with pathway thinking. However, interpersonal relationship did not have a significant correlation with self-efficacy and agency thinking. Second, self-efficacy had a significant impact on hope and on adaptation to the society. Hope had a significant impact on adaptation to Korean society. Social networks significantly affected on hope but had no direct impact on adaptation to the society. Third, hope partially mediated in the relationship between efficacy and adjustment to the society and also perfectly did in the relationship between social networks and adaptation to the society. These results of this study will be effectively used to enhance the adaptation to a new society in which immigrants moved newly.
Kwang Mook Choi, Yeoun Kyoung Hwang and Chang Seek Lee, 2018. The Effects of Efficacy and Social Networks on Foreign Working People’s Adjustment: The Mediating Effects of Hope. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 3238-3242.