The Relationship Between the Digital Information Utilization Capabilities, Social Capital, and Life Satisfaction of Immigrant Women

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between marriage immigrant women's digital information utilization capabilities and life satisfaction. To achieve this research objective, the responses of 563 women among marriage immigrants in the “2022 Digital Information Gap Survey” data were used using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 24.0 statistical packages, with digital information utilization capabilities as the independent variable and life satisfaction as the dependent variable. It was set to . In addition, the hypothesis was tested using a structural equation model using social capital, which is expected to play a mediating role in their relationship, as a mediating variable. As a result, first, the impact of marriage immigrant women's digital information utilization capabilities on life satisfaction was not statistically significant. Second, marriage immigrant women's ability to use digital information had a positive effect on social capital. Third, the social capital of married immigrant women was found to have a positive (+) effect on life satisfaction. Fourth, as a result of confirming statistical significance through bootstrapping of the impact of digital information utilization capabilities on life satisfaction through social capital, the confidence interval did not include 0 and was statistically significant. As a result, it was confirmed that marriage immigrant women's social capital fully mediated the relationship between their digital information utilization capabilities and life satisfaction. Based on these research results, practical and policy efforts to improve the life satisfaction of married immigrant women were suggested.