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KMID : 0379220180380010103
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2018 Volume.38 No. 1 p.103 ~ p.123
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A Narrative Inquiry on the Experience of Bereavement to an Elderly Male
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Kim Seo-Hyun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this research is to study how an elderly male lives after the experience of bereavement, and to understand the experience s essence. The researcher picked 3 elderly men living alone after separation by death as test subjects and gathered information through in-depth interviews. The analysis of the information was done based on the three-dimensional space of narrative presented by Clandinin and Connely(2000), and it restructures the common experience under five meanings. The mutual themes of ‘It’s the life of a sinner, but not wanting to be seen as a widower to others’, ‘The fear for death, and the preparation for after death’, ‘Trying to stay alive for the children’, ‘Entering the world to find meaning in a gloomy life’, and ‘A lone goose lost in search of social warmth’ came from the research results. The essence of the experience studied with the mutual themes as basis came out to be ‘A struggle to take flight again after one broken wing’. This research has a major significance in that elderly males experience of bereavement was studied in the dimension of time continuity, and that individual social interactions that are made by elderly males to continue their lives after the experience of bereavement were studied.
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KEYWORD
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Spousal Bereavement, Elderly Living Alone, Narrative inquiry
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