This study is intended to learn about the factors appearing in parenting stress and the copying strategies
by targeting marriage immigrant women who are raising middle and high school student. To this end,
in-depth interviews were conducted on seven participants of Marriage Migrant Women who are living in
Seoul and Gyeongi area. Generally to say, first of results showed that the personal factors, family factors,
social factors and enculturative factors were found out as the factors of parenting stress of them. Secondly,
problem-centered and emotion-focused coping strategies for the factors of stress were the main ways.
Specifically, as the individual factors, the self-efficiency was coped with problem-focused ways and the
parenting roles were coped with emotion-focused ways. As the family factors, child's activity and sociality
impact their school adjustment and their mother’s parenting stress and, various copying strategies were used
depending on the different situation. For the social factors, looking for family supporting as the active
problem-focused coping ways were used in husband's family and looking for emotional comfort as the
emotion-focused coping ways were used in parents’ home. In the case of enculturative factors, the
emotion-focused coping strategies were used for the Public gaze and the prejudice around them that caused
overwhelming sense of helplessness.