KMID : 1025820160240020207
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Family and Family Therapy 2016 Volume.24 No. 2 p.207 ~ p.226
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Narrative Identities of an Adult Child in a Remarried Family
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Koo Ja-Gyoung
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore narrative identities that emerged in the life stories of an adult who grew up in a remarried family.
Methods: Field texts were constructed from in-depth interviews with a woman in her twenties. These texts were analyzed in a three-dimensional space that was constructed using narrative inquiry¡¯s temporality, reciprocity, and situating methods. The meaning of participant¡¯s experiences were reconstructed through the participant¡¯s telling and retelling of her life stories naturally and spontaneously.
Results: Working with her psychosocial contexts and with the flow of time of her life, the subject¡¯s identities were changed and reconstructed from ¡°a sloppy, cute baby¡± who felt abandonment anxiety, ¡°a lonely woman¡± who was worried about which family she belonged to, ¡°an abandoned victim¡± who longed for love, and ¡°a useless rebel¡± who defied her mother after joining a new family, into ¡°a daughter of a normal family,¡± and ¡°another flower¡± who was a confident, integral whole.
Conclusions: The narrative identities of an adult child in a remarried family were reconstructed from a ¡°deficient victim¡± to a ¡°coherent, integral whole¡± through the telling of her life stories in a three-dimensional narrative space.
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KEYWORD
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remarried couple, adult child, narrative identity, life story, narrative research
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