The Life Story of Hsing: a Child Bride’s Inferiority to Resilience

• Main Authors: Pei-Yu HSU, 許佩瑜
• Other Authors: 田秀蘭
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h2975g

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 101 === This research aimed to understand the life story of a child bride. The researcher’s own grandmother was the research subject in this study. Being a young female in the 21st century, the researcher probed her grandmother’s story as a child bride with a rigorous academic focus and a qualitative psychology orientation. As for the research approach, narrative analysis was used to have conversations with the subject and to analyze the collected data. In the reciprocal conversations with the subject as well as the texts, the researcher not only had a closer look of her grandmother’s life story, but also presented how a child bride born in the 1930s developed mental toughness and resilience through her sense of inferiority against her restrained family culture and the historical background. Through in-depth interviews, the researcher’s grandmother was led into the journey of her own life story as a child bride. The grandmother and the granddaughter together experienced the subject’s life contexts, in which the subject originally came from a prestigious and affluent family but ended up as a child bride struggling in Tamsui for more than 70 years. The subject’s unique identity as a child bride has deeply influenced her childhood, school learning, marriage, family, and self-esteem. It is hoped that this study could truly present the subject's extraordinary experiences and how she interpreted them. Moreover, the researcher tried to understand how the subject's identity as a "child bride" accompanied her through the ups and downs in her life. Lastly, through the close and sincere conversations and accompany between grandmother and granddaughter, the researcher hopes to have a closer relationship with her own grandmother, and also to fulfill her grandmother's wish of having her life story being "completely listened to and reserved". Besides unfolding the process of how a granddaughter having closer relationship and deeper understanding of her grandmother, this study attempts to take a female as the subject of narrative inquiry with the intention to present the the subject's life essence. This way, readers could have a clear look of the unbending and multifaceted nature developed from the tortures and miseries in contemporary child brides' lives.