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KMID : 0608020120200030547
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Korean Journal of Family Therapy
2012 Volume.20 No. 3 p.547 ~ p.571
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Women’s Experiences of the Relationship between Mother-in-Law and Son-in-Law
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Kim Hye-Sun
Park Tai-Young
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study investigated married women’s experiences of the relationship between their husbands and their mothers.
Methods: Using Giorgi’s phenomenological method, the researchers extracted four components: blindness to the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law, being open-minded about the conflict within the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law, expanding a self-centered perspective to a broader perspective, and having a new perspective of the family relationship.
Results: If participants had a more emotionally intimate relationship with their mothers than with their husbands, the relationships between the husband and wife and between the mother-in-law and son-in-law were exacerbated. Participants examined their level of emotional separation from their mother, their involvement in the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law, and the stability of their marriage.
Conclusions: Through all the discomforts and conflicts, participants experienced marriage as a process for reaching maturity.
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KEYWORD
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mother-in-law, son-in-law, phenomenology
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