The Lived Experience of Role Transition to Being New Fatherhood

• Main Authors: Lian-Jen Hwu, 胡蓮珍
• Other Authors: Yu-O Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99798668468096179062

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 88 === The purpose of this research is to explore the lived experience of role transition to being new fatherhood. This study was conducted by the phenomenological method. A total of seven newly fathered participated in the study. The author of this research, as a primary nurse, take care of their wives during the period of their confinement, providing nursing service as well as establishing caring-relation with the newly fathered. The author continues to provide home care after the newly mothered were discharged from the hospital and conducted interviews with their husbands in the subsequent three months. All are documented in the form of process recording. The data are then classified and categorized, base on Colaizzi’s content analysis, to the point of theoretical saturation. The result shows that the role transition in the first three months of new fatherhood can be summarized five themes as follows: “satisfaction of successful pregnancy,” “the ecstasy of an uncomplicated delivery,” “the delights and concerns of fatherhood,”“developing paternal instincts,”“effort to mold future development of the child.” The result of this research shows that a father, experiencing the process of nurturing and change in life, would come to new reflections on his own past and future. Understanding of the behavior mode of the newly fathered would help in nursing activities centering on the family. Another conclusion of this research is that the sex and gender rationalization behind the role transition of fatherhood is still traditional. This discovery could provide a reference for future education on the equal gender role.