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KMID : 1003020070080010039
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Qualitative Research
2007 Volume.8 No. 1 p.39 ~ p.54
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A Phenomenological study on Housewives" Experience in Two-working-parent Family
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Chang Mi-Kyung
Jo Hea-Kyung
Lee Sook-Kyung
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aims to investigate how woman experiences the role of homemaking one of her many role ? in two ? working ? parent family, where both she and her spouse have their jobs, and to evaluate what kind of meaning it has to her.
Method: The study was accomplished by Van Manen’s method of phenomenological research. The housewife had no other cohabitant other than her husband and children.
Results: The essences of phenomena which were gained from the deeper phenomenological reflection on the data were ‘difficulties in busy daily life’, ‘helplessness in front of endless work’, ‘disappointment from the lack of recognition from family member’, ‘submission to the given role’, ‘feel guilty of the negligence of motherhood’and ‘contentment with having one’s own career’.
Conclusion: These results are relevant and consequential to nursing because the number of housewife is on the increase in spite of the hard situation as studied here, where all the burden of housekeeping and raising children fall only upon housewives even when she has her own work.
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KEYWORD
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Wife in two-working-parent family, Role of housewives, Experience of housewife
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