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KMID : 1159120180250020299
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Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology
2018 Volume.25 No. 2 p.299 ~ p.325
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Happiness among Single Parent Women who chose Divorce
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Baek Eun-Young
Lee Myung-Woo
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Abstract
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The purpose of the research was to better understand the experience of happiness among single parent females. By creating a substantive theory through this research of female single parents who actively chose to divorce their partners, the aim was to identify effective and practical measures to assist both single parents and single parent families. The subject of inquiry: What is the process for experiencing happiness for single parent women who chose divorce? Grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbinb (1998) was applied in order to research the change process of happiness experienced after a single parent female chose to divorce. Eight participants in total were selected and the major method of data collection was in-depth interview. Data analysis was conducted via open coding, axial coding, and selective coding at the time of data collection. As a result, 163 concepts, 42 subcategories, and 15 categories were derived from the open coding. Axial coding identified the process of happiness as ‘acceptance of single parent status’, ‘reconstruction of positive self’, ‘redefinition of life as single parent’, ‘practice functional life’, and ‘experience of happiness’. The core category of selective coding appeared to be ‘experiencing independent happiness in the process of selecting and accepting life as a single parent’. As a result of identifying the possible relevance among the categories which consistently appeared based on the core category, the categories of happiness experience of female single parents who chose divorce were ‘meaning pursuit type’, ‘relationship-oriented type’, and ‘self-development type’.
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KEYWORD
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Divorced female single parent, happiness experience process, grounded theory
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