| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 103 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the midlife adults’ experiences of sibling conflict after parent’s death and the procedure of their self-adjustment. I hope people can pay more attention to this issue and understand these experiences thorough multiple perspectives, instead of defining them only as fights for inheritances. The research questions and directions are: 1. the midlife adult’s experience of sibling conflict after parent’s death; 2. self-adjustment after going through the sibling conflict after parent’s death; 3. Chinese culture’s influence on the processes of sibling conflict after parent’s death and self-adjustment; 4. the meanings of sibling conflict after parent’s death. This research is a narrative study, using the method of narrative analysis combined of Labov’s narrative structure to analyze.
The results show that there are four factors of sibling conflict after parent’s death, including inheritance/stake, belief/values, family context and culture context. And the sibling conflict after parent’s death can be divided into two types: 1. the appearance of the conflict lurking in the family; 2. the unexpected conflict. Facing sibling conflict after parent’s death, people have three ways to deal with: 1. suppress or use an unclear way to cope with; 2. bring the conflict out and solve it; 3. don’t intervene into the conflict having no immediate bearing on oneself. In the end, the sibling conflict after parent’s death could cause three kinds of outcome: 1. deterioration of sibling relationship; 2. reconciliation; 3. termination of sibling relationship. The sibling conflict after parent’s death might cause loss (loss of losing home, loss of losing particular sibling, loss of anticipation and values). And people might question “why is this happening to my family?”, since they cannot use past experience to explain the sibling conflict after parent’s death. To find the answer, people could use four kinds of way to help themselves to reframe and understand their experience: 1. observe status; 2. rethink the past; 3. psychology knowledge; 4. The concept of yuan (緣) and ming (命). However, it takes people some time to accept the happen of sibling conflict after parent’s death and the change of sibling relationship. Once people accept what they experienced and their fate, they can develop new action. During this process, people might change themselves in many aspects: change of conception of the world, change of the attitude of treating people, change of role in conflict, and change of one’s focus of attention in life. The results of this research also show that the roles that Chinese culture play in the process of sibling conflict after parent’s death and self-adjustment, which include: conflict factor, shaping of belief and values, influences on the way facing conflict, tool for rationalize one’s behavior or attack others, and helping people to understand their experience and adjust. In the end of this research, the narraow definition of the sibling conflict after parent’s death construceted by the soicity is deconstructed, and multiple definitions and meanings are reconstruceted and found out.
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