A Narrative Study of the Parent-Child Relationship

• Main Authors: Wu Chin-Wei, 巫金味
• Other Authors: Wang Wen-hsiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34229078407371928478

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 人資處教育心理與諮商碩士專班 === 101 === The main purposes of this study were to explore the change of the relationship dynamic between the only-daughters and their single mothers, the difficulties they encountered, and how they dealt with the hardship. The study adopted purposeful sampling, three female adults who are the single daughters with their mothers were invited to participate. According to narrative research approach, these life-stories were written in “holistic-content” perspective and then analyzed in “categorical-content” perspective. Although 3 daughters had different life stories, their mothers adopted different ways of motherhood, there are some similarities during their growing process. Four stages of single mother-daughter interactive experience were found: 1.Childhood: Daughters accommodated and tended to be independent so as not to bother their mothers. 2.Adolescence: Daughters turned to peers to seek the intimacy and belongingness. 3.Early adulthood: Daughters turned back to mother-daughter relationship, practicing communicating and expressing their different views from their mothers. 4.Adulthood: Daughters got married and left home, constructing appropriate ways to be close to their mothers. The coping strategies those 3 daughters used to adjust their mother-daughter interaction included: (1) to accommodate the personality differences between daughters and their mothers; (2) to be more independent, daughters tried to set clear boundaries in their relationships; (3) to pursue for intimacy, daughters and mothers tried ways to have more intimate communication; and (4) to deal with the separation anxiety through the process of wedding preparation. Implications and future suggestions were addressed.