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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

  • KOREAN
  • P-ISSN1229-067X
  • E-ISSN2734-1127
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A Qualitative Study on the Experience in the Marital relationship of Adolescent Victims’ Parents: Focusing on the Experience of Sewol Ferry Disaster Victims’ Families

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2018, v.37 no.2, pp.221-255
https://doi.org/10.22257/kjp.2018.06.37.2.221




Abstract

This purpose of this study was to understand the marital relationship of bereaved parents of the Sewol Ferry disaster after the death of a child. Giorgi’s phenomenological method was employed to deduct 7 components and 25 subcomponents from statements of deep interview of 15 participants. The participants’ experience of marital relationship is divided into ‘the difference of married couples’, ‘grief reaction and grieving style’, ‘couples` relationship after death of their child’ and ‘parents who live for their child: meaning of surviving children and a deceased child’. The components are: ‘wives enduring sorrow of bereavement’, ‘husbands avoiding grief’, ‘changes in couples’ daily lives’, ‘exhausted by looking at a spouse’, ‘coping with grief’, ‘awareness of the value of a spouse’, ‘maintaining couples’ relationship for their child’. The discussion and implication were provided based on the results of this study.

keywords
세월호 유가족, 청소년 자녀, 사별, 부부관계, Sewol Ferry, adolescents, bereavement, marital relationship

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