The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of the stress of single-parent family. To fill up this purpose, I selected single-parent family with the concept of health on the base of strong point and identified which element of family resilience had effect on decreasing, moderating, and overcoming the stress of single-parent family.
I made a sample by selecting mothers of the students of single-parent family in elementary, middle, and high schools located in Seoul through non-probability purposive sampling. I used 191 questionnaires for analysis data.
As the result of this study, I could find out that single-parent family had relatively more resilience with which they could cope with difficulty and crisis. Especially, even though the connection and family resource among sub-factors of family resilience\'s organization form had the same trait of sociology of population, it was proven that single-parent family was important effector in decreasing and overcoming the family stress. Therefore, it needs further study to enforce and increase family resilience with the focus on connection with single-parent family and service for family resource.