|
KMID : 0379220080280030403
|
|
Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2008 Volume.28 No. 3 p.403 ~ p.424
|
|
|
Study on the Process of Abusing Elders by Daughter-in-Laws
|
|
Kim Mee-Hye
Kwon Kum-Ju
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
The purpose of this study is to understand the process of committing elder abuse by daughter-in-laws with particular focus on their experiences. According to the analysis method from Grounded
Theory(Strauss & Corbin, 1998), 6 women who had the experience of abusing their parent-in-laws were interviewed. The interview results were analyzed using open, axial, and selective coding methods. The process of abuse by daughter-in-laws of their elders was divided to five phases; ’latent phase’, ’endurance’, ’escape’, ’offending’ and ’adjustment’. The results are following: First, daughter-in-laws tend to start elder abuse when they cannot get out of their care-giver role against frail elders although they do not want to.
Second, elder abuse is mostly influenced by the quality of relationship between elders and their daughter-in-laws. Finally, we can explain elder abuse using the concept of ’power reversal’. Specifically, daughter-in-laws tend to start elder abuse when they get enough power to resist authority of elders and to control elders
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
elder abuse, elder mistreatment, elder abuse offender, qualitative research, grounded theory
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|