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KMID : 1003020090100020086
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Qualitative Research
2009 Volume.10 No. 2 p.86 ~ p.102
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The Experience Process of Obese Women in Workplace
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Woo Mi-Kyung
Kim Hyun-Sook
Ji Eun-Joo
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a substantial theory which explains the behaviors of obese women and by which the care to be provided for them is to be improved. For theses purposes, this study suggests that how the women feel their physical and psychological disadvantages in workplace and how they come over their inferiors and integrate their experiences into something meaningful for them.
Methods: The methods was the grounded theory by Strausss & Corbin (1998m 2008), and the six participants in this study were the women who lived in the metropolitans or smaller cities and had more than 30% of Body Mass Index (BMI), while they kept it more than one year.
Results: In the process of the study, 73 concepts, 23 subcategories, and 11 categories were produced. The experiences of them in workplace were recurrent over time. The recurrence could be classified into four phases: Awareness phase, adjustment phase, adaptation phase and acceptance phase. The core category of their thoughts arisen during being in workplace was "let"s live my live with present appearance being accepted", and including it other types of thoughts could largely be broken down into three types when were classified in relation with the relevance: Optimistic type, stress type and desperate type.
Conclusion: In conclusion, the finding of this study found that obese women in workplace had a recurrent experience of self awareness, adjustment, adaption, and acceptance, and they used several strategies, whether failed or succeeded, in the process of them.
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KEYWORD
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Obese, Women, Workplace, Experience process, Grounded theory
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