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KMID : 0614420080300010385
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Mental Health & Social Work
2008 Volume.30 No. 1 p.385 ~ p.417
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The Lived Experience of the Adolescent Girls Who Were Victims from Sexual Violence -No Matter What You Call Me, I Am Still Me-
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Han In-Young
Kim Sun-Min
Kim Jin-Sook
Kim Jin-Sook
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Abstract
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This study aims to find out ’what is it like to be living as victims from sexual violence?’ the basic themes of the lifeworld, experiences of lived body, lived space, lived time, and lived other, provided the basis for the phenomenological text. As data collection and data analysis occurred, the lifeworld existential became the foundation for textually organizing the phenomenological writing. A purposeful sample of 10 adolescent girls (ages 12-18) were interviewed after obtaining informed consent. Findings from this study were derived from the way that study participants experienced the lifeworld existential of lived body, lived space, lived time, and lived relationship with others. 1) Lived body: The participants experienced violences of all kinds and became tough in facing violence. The participants were violated physically and emotionally by the perpetrators before they were sexually violated. However, they experienced that their plea for help before sexual violence was ignored. The study participants realized that their whole body were not to be protected but only specific part of their body. They saw themselves as victims from violences which could be healed as time went by. Their bodies were seen as something ’less than’ by their close family members. The participants reveals the ’incidents’ and asked or help outside of the family system. They determined to pursue active roles in building their lives. 2) Lived space: The participants lived in the place where information about the violences were flooded but no specific action took place. They experienced that people gossiped without any consideration of the victims The participants were pushed away, removed from their routines just because of they were victims of sexual violence. They realized that the people around them only focusing what happened in terms of sexual violent but not how were they doing after the incident. However, they were strengthened by people who understood what they went through. They want to rebuild their home with people who they can trust and feel safe. 3) lived time: The participants became to have clear boundaries. They did not stay in their experiences but move on their lives. Some participants’ specific ways of moving on their lives were writing about their experiences. Not only the participants have fears for their future because of what happened in their lives, but they also drew resources from their past experiences. 4) lived relationship with others: The participants clearly understood that they were victims. They knew who they could count on. Their family were fragile in their eyes. Even though the participants have ambivalent feelings toward their family members, they still want to believe that their family would be O.K. someday. The participants found new community that can be new family members.
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KEYWORD
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sexual violence, experience of sexual violence, adolescents, phenomenological writing, qualitative study
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