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KMID : 1025820220300020245
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Family and Family Therapy
2022 Volume.30 No. 2 p.245 ~ p.276
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A Narrative Inquiry on Middle-aged Women’s Experience of Spousal Bereavement and Mourning
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Lee Eun-Kyoung
Choi Youn-Shil
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study aims to understand the meaning of spousal bereavement and mourning experiences among middle-aged women.
Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted in order to collect data from four middle-aged women who had experienced the death of their spouse for more than six years, over four separate interviews with each respondent. As a research method, narrative inquiry was applied.
Results: The research revealed the following thematic elements: “discrimination and sacrifice”, “half-pushed marriage”, and “family that needed to protect in times of crisis” in the life before the spouse’s death; “unprepared parting” and “I’m sorry! Thanks! I love you!” from the experience of spousal bereavement; and “the pain and guilt by other people’s viewpoints”, “bearing the weight of life alone”, “reconstructing relationships”, “the path to self-discovery of healing and recovery”, and “leading my own life” in the mourning experience.
Conclusions: This research will contribute to providing effective engagement in the counseling of mourning marital and family recovery by providing an understanding of the experiences and meanings of middle-aged women who were bereaved of their spouses.
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KEYWORD
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middle-aged women, spousal bereavement, mourning, narrative inquiry
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