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Single Mother Family’s Stress and Depression

The purposes of this article were to find the general trends of single mothers and their child ren’s stress and depression, to estimate the correlation among variables, and to analyze the effects of related variables and stress influencing depression. The data were analyzed from the 566 single mothers and their children living in Kwang-ju. The major findings were as follows: 1. Scores of single mothers’ and their children’s stress were lower than median. But scores of single mothers’ depression were higher than median. Single mothers and their children’s stress and depression were not significant in widowed and divorced. 2. Single mothers’ and children’s stress were related to depression. Single mothers’ stress and depression were related to their children’s. 3. Single mothers’ depression were influenced by mother’s age, years of spouse-loss, family relation stress, economic stress, job-family conflict and interpersonal stress. Children’s depression were influenced by mother’s education, years of father-loss, friend relation satisfaction, numbers of friend, family relation stress, school-family stress and interpersonal stress.