Deferred Home Youth: The guarding angel in family crisis?--Interpreting social withdrawal youth’s deferred home phenomenon through developmental, family, and cultural contexts

• Main Authors: Chao-Hui Huang, 黃兆慧
• Other Authors: Pei-Li Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89645228018022209578

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士在職專班 === 93 === The purposes of this research are to explore the contributing and maintaining factors of the deferred home youth phenomenon in Chinese families and interpreting this phenomenon through developmental, family, and cultural contexts. This research also tries to estimate the needs of the deferred home youth and their families, and pinpoint the interventions feasible for counselors to follow. Based on hermeneutics research approach, this research adopted in-depth interview and observation method to collect relevant data. Research participants include members of two families with deferred home youths and one professional consultant. Thirteen interviews were conducted successively with eight participants and four field notes were taken by the researcher. The results of the research are listed as follows: 1. The contributing factors of deferred home youth phenomenon include the lack of self identification, family inertia protection, negative failing experiences in outside world, and inappropriate interventions of social resources. 2. The maintaining factor of deferred home youth phenomenon is the cross-generational good intention complex between youths and their parents. 3. The cross-generational good intention complex is consisted of the fixed and unbalanced interaction pattern between parent and offspring. The formation of the complex is related to members’ adjustment in coping family crises. 4. The structure of the cross-generational good intention complex is strengthened by the deep structures of Chinese culture and is hard to shatter. It is very important to comprehend the good intention of both generations although the psychological complex does make problems.