The significance of resilience in mental health promotion of marriage immigrant women: a qualitative study of factors and processes

Table 2 Themes and categories of marriage immigrant women’s resilience process

Themes	Categories	Sub-categories
1.Staged process of growth	Enduring difficulties	Difficulties due to cultural differences
		Communication difficulty
		Conflicts due to family relationships
		Financial problems
	Collapse of stability	Collapse of stability within 1 ~ 2 years
	Collapse of stability	Mental illness
	Access to professional help	Informative support from friends
	Access to professional help	Deciding whether to get help
	Professional and social support	Meeting the needs of recognition, respect, and reward
	Professional and social support	Developing skills in expression and communication
	Experience of growth	Experience of positive emotion
		Change of view
		Efforts to strengthen growth
2.Absence of partner support	Close yet far-away husbands
2.Absence of partner support	Support of a friend during collapse
3.Children as the driving force for change	Positive effects of children
3.Children as the driving force for change	Negative impacts of children
4.The need for economic activity	Benefits from economic activity
4.The need for economic activity	Loss from economic activity
5.Factors affecting difference in growth	Spousal support
5.Factors affecting difference in growth	Satisfaction of women’s needs for recognition, respect, and reward

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