The Study on Resilience of Parentified Adolescents in Vulnerable Families

• Main Authors: Lin, Hui-Ling, 林慧玲
• Other Authors: Wang, Shu-Twu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3nz9mz

碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 社會工作系所 === 105 === The purpose of this study is to understand the causes and experiences of parentified adolescents with family responsibility and how they use individual, family and community protective factors to overcome adversity to demonstrate resilience. This research adapts the depth interview methods of the qualitative research as data gathering methods. The research interviewed nine teenagers age with twelve to eighteen, support for up to more than one year and let the partictipants to discuss their own experience so as to understand parentified adolescents how to overcome adverse risks of individual development and to demonstrate resilience. The major results of this study are as follows: 1.The reasons for parentified adolescents as a family caretaker include poor parental function, significant family event; the main caregiver is in poor health, considerate of main family caretaker's toil. 2.The responsibility that parentified adolescents take include doing chores, taking care of sibling, nursing disability family, assisting in earning a livelihood, financial management, emotional support and companionship. 3.The experience of family caretaker include three items: (1)Difficult experiences include economic problems, feeling stress and fear because of unfamiliar with family task, worry about family’s health, financial management challenges. (2)Negative experience include self- denial, sense of unfair, deprived of opportunities, exhausted. (3)Positive experience include to act independently and with the initiative in their own hands, well self-management, good problem- solving ability and good interpersonal relationship. 4.The protective factors include three items: (1) Individual positive traits and abilities. (2) Family support and sibling shared responsibility. (3) Community protective factors of Peers support, teachers support and welfare organizations support. 5.Optimistic and positive attitudes are conductive to cope with adversity and create opportunities for success, maintain stable and intimate family relation are the driving forces for adhering, social supports relieve the pressure and reduce helplessness. According to the results of the study, the researcher make some suggestions to practitioners, families and further researchers. It is expected to enhance parentified adolescents’ ability to cope with adversity and protect them for better development.