Getting Out of The Swirl of Confusion—A Middle-aged Housewife’s Self-narrative Research

• Main Authors: Sung,Hanyi, 宋函倚
• Other Authors: Lin,Meijen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26731875614884675116

碩士 === 經國管理暨健康學院 === 健康產業管理研究所 === 99 === This thesis was based on "midlife crisis" theories. There are two main purposes of this study. Firstly, this study was aimed to explore a housewife colliding her mid-life crisis, re-positioning and self- adjustment of her mental processes; Secondly, to explore the opportunity of her life process when she is facing her collision of midlife crisis and her threads of life. The middle age housewives in Taiwan are bound by traditional social roles, a loss of body change and multiple thoughts of rapid social changing. These crises may be an excellent chance to encourage her to reflect her past life experiences, to listen the real voices of her mind and to search for new meaning of life. The Self-narrative research approach was adopt in this study for looking after missing piece of life. Due to spiritual needs, religious attendance has been tried. Then the physical, mental and spiritual effects were followed and mixed. The narrative inquiry results of action process were: affliction were causd by attachment to permanence; learning gratitude and thanksgiving deeply inside the heart; keeping broad-minded always; calm and positive acceptance; learning how to break through the self, and finally helping the researchers who has doubted her life to reopen gradually into positive, open-minded and new meaning of life.