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Unlike daily hassles or minor stressors, immigration is an intense life event thatmay cause excessive stress. In particular, immigrant parents find themselves in a morestressful situation in that they experience stresses caused by immigration and stressescaused by parenting at the same time. The purpose of this study is to develop andvalidate an Immigrant Parental Stress Inventory (IPSI), that objectively andcomprehensively assesses the stress experienced by immigrant parents within theKorean context. Based on the Immigrant Parental Stress Inventory developed within the Americancontext, preliminary items were refined through a literature review and the discussionsof experts and immigrant parents and were empirically validated with a sample of 203immigrant parents residing in Korea. Through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, six main factors wereidentified (Factor1 Difficulties in communication, Factor2 Financial difficulties, Factor3Difficulties in social adjustment, Factor4 Social discrimination, Factor5 Lack of socialresources, Factor6 Difficulties in parenting). The IPSI was shown to be apsychometrically sound instrument that is capable of measuring immigrant parental stress within the Korean context. Social service professionals and researchers studyingor working with immigrant families could use the IPSI to examine immigrant parentalstress.