Social Support and Suicidal Ideation among Children of Cross-Border Married Couples

Lee Shinyoung (), Kim Seulki (), Kim Young-Chul () and Ryu Doojin ()
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Lee Shinyoung: Cornerstone Research, Chicago, IL, United States of America
Kim Seulki: Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY, United States of America
Kim Young-Chul: Department of Economics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Ryu Doojin: Department of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, 2024, vol. 18, issue 1, 17

Abstract: Marriage-related migration by women from less developed to high-income nations has been increasing rapidly in Asia, and the proportion of children born to these foreign-born women is increasing as well. Using a unique dataset based on the Korean Youth Risk Behavior Survey, we investigate the relationship between social support and suicidal ideation among children with foreign-born mothers. We find that both maternal advice and teachers’ advice are significantly associated with a reduction in suicidal ideation among these children, with a further decrease of 3.2 and 4.9% points, respectively, compared to children with native Korean mothers. These findings imply that more government attention should be focused on educating and training foreign-born mothers and schoolteachers to improve their capacity to advise these children.

Keywords: cross-border marriage; marriage migration; social support; suicidal ideation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 J12 J13 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1515/econ-2022-0120

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