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KMID : 0614420090320010215
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Mental Health & Social Work
2009 Volume.32 No. 1 p.215 ~ p.247
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Positive Force of North Korean Defectors At Psychosocial Crisis -A Qualitative Study-
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Eom Tae-Wan
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Abstract
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The purpose of present study is to identify whether the North Korean defectors in South Korea have internal forces for psychosocial crisis that they might experience by using Patton’s thematic analysis method (2002). Total number of the study participants was 9 (4 man, 5 women), who all had marital experience, lived in South Korea 3-7years and entered South Korea since 2000. The result of the study showed that the defectors’ability to overcome psychosocial crisis could be divided into one’s internal realm and social relationship realm, and that the defectors had positive forces. The internal realm included positive sub-themes such as the ‘ability to accept’, ‘ability to respect oneself’ and ‘ability to endure’, and social relationship realm included three sub-themes such as ‘ability to contact’, ‘ability to expose’ and ‘ability to connect’. We could identify the defectors’ individual force to maintain daily life in South Korea at times of psychological, mental and social crisis, and also ascertain the detailed themes about their positive individual force.
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KEYWORD
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psychosocial crisis, positive force, qualitative study, North Korean defector
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