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KMID : 0614420140420020063
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Mental Health & Social Work
2014 Volume.42 No. 2 p.63 ~ p.90
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A Study on Life History of an Elderly Female Gambler
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Hong Hye-Mi
Kim Yong-Geun
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Abstract
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This study aims to analyze a life history of an elderly female gambler who gambled about thirty years. Under the premise that human behavior, gambling, can have meanings developed by interaction between a gambler and environment, authors interpreted lived-experience and various kind of meanings of gambling. Her life history showed contextualized meanings of gambling, reflecting sociocultural circumstances of Korea, especially as a female gambler. To analyze her life history authors interpreted a narrative structure, theme and narrative strategy of her life history data. Result of analysis indicated that theme of narrative was 「Others seduced me to go awry from my innocent ways」. The reason that she always placed someone else before major transition of her life in story was interpreted as narrative strategy to justify her gambling experience to interviewer. Her gambling experience was separated into three segments and results of analysis and interpretation are as follows - first, her first gambling experience was a consequence of 「dialectical interaction of oppression and deviation」, second, her second gambling experience in Japan was a consequence of 「reciprocal action of diachronic and synchronic conditions」, finally, her last gambling experience in Kangwonland was the process of change 「from legitimated gambler to panhandler, and recovery again」. Based on the results, authors suggested program that rebuild family relationships for pathological gamblers.
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KEYWORD
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patho log ica l gam b ling, elderly fem a le gam b ler, life history, narrative structure, narrative strategy
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