The experience of early adulthood’s in caring their mothers with cancer in the terminal stage – the balance of individual development and caregiving responsibility

• Main Authors: YUAN,JUNG-HUA, 苑容華
• Other Authors: LI,TSUI-SHAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8jtg8m

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 兒童與家庭學系碩士班 === 107 === Thesis Title: The experience of early adulthood’s in caring their mothers with cancer in the terminal stage-the balance of individual development and caregiving responsibility. 　　The origin of this research came from my own experience. When my mother suffered cancer, I served as the primary caregiver. At that time, I was ready to show my talent and stepped on the dream journey but all original plans were stopped due to taking care of my mother. For me who is in state of pre-adulthood, what a torment and contradiction! Hence, I begin to be concerned with people who have the same experience as mine and hope to know whether they faced the same unfavorable as mine. Therefore, the research journey begins with this curiosity. 　　This research takes the qualitative research method and collects the information via deep interview. There is total one research participant who accepts the interview and also refers to the experience from the researcher herself. 　　During my research, I find Jane consider that her younger brother will be more inconvenient to take care of their mother so she actively takes as the primary caregiver. In this decision, she doesnt think over self-feeling a bit but only take her mother as priority. For the three categories (Career planning, Peer relationship, Intimate relationship) of personal development, career planning is the most emphasized; then, the care responsibility could be demarcate as primary caregiver, economic supplier, coordinator, the person who takes responsibility to condense. If putting the personal development and the care responsibility on the scale, the care responsibility is tremendously more important than the personal development. 　　Next, this research shows the corresponding experience and difference between the researcher and Jane. We are in the similar background but the behind reason unexpectedly exists extremely discrepancy. However, the discrepancy comes from our own different personal believe. Jane focuses on the family. If the family could be complete with happiness, to put her in the last position is acceptable. But I take myself as first consideration and afraid to marked on the unfilial label. 　　In additionally, the researcher found filial piety imperceptibly influences both of Jane and me indeed. Our devotion for our mother also stands for taking a part of filial. 　　Yet, the relationship between my families and I and between Jane and her families are gradually changed with different period. For Jane, the family relationship is constantly in close and even closer status. Only when her mother passes away, it causes temporarily become alienated. On the contrary, my family relationship has more variability. From pre-cancerous to pos-carcinoma, the family relationship change from having slight connection to close but along with passing away of my mother, the quarrel makes my father, my second elder brother and I alienated. None the less, the talk with my first elder brother and elder sister during the mourning period, it pulls each other to become closer. Keyword: Pre-adulthood daughter, personal development, cares responsibility.