ARE THEY HAPPY? INDIVIDUAL CASE RESEARCH OF FOUR FULLTIME MOTHERS

• Main Authors: Yen Ju Lin, 林晏如
• Other Authors: Chun-Ching Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73317950614865213897

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 進修部文教行政碩士班(夜間) === 101 === The researcher hopes, basing on itself predicament encountered, to find the way out for fulfillment strait of motherhood. This study would like to grasp the lived experience of fulltime mothers by qualitative research through deep interview and from it to comprehend the confronted dilemma as well as the resolutions of motherhood. In general analysis, modern mothers are different in motherhood practice. For example, they look it upon more positively and fulfill it much easier. But the researcher found, after deep analysis, many contradictions and conflicts still exist in the interpreted motherhood by these mothers. In other words, the research detected simultaneously more clashes and discrepancies with practice change of modern motherhood. These mothers, for instance, are commonly satisfied with their own practice of motherhood and present being status even when they are confined in self-choice, motherhood practice or position. They sort out an adapted mechanism although think it