Women's Health Nursing (여성건강간호학회지)
- Volume 8 Issue 2
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- Pages.190-200
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- 2002
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- 3022-7666(pISSN)
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- 3022-8247(eISSN)
The Relationships between Sex-Role Identity and the Meaning in Life for a Matriarch
여성가장의 성역할 정체감유형과 생의 의미수준
- Kim, Sook-Nam (Pusan Catholic University, College of Nursing) ;
- Choi, Soon-Ock (Pusan Catholic University, College of Nursing) ;
- Shin, Kyung-Il (Pusan Catholic University) ;
- Lee, Jeong-Ji (Pusan Catholic University, College of Nursing)
- Published : 2002.06.20
Abstract
The purposes of this study were to understand the sex role identity and the meaning in life(MIL) of matriarchs and analyze their relationships to offer basic data for effective nursing strategies for improving MIL. The data for this study was collected from the 10th of August to the 30th of November, 2000. The subjects were women registered in an occupational training program for unemployed matriarchs which is held in the Working Women's Center in Busan. The measurement tools of this study were MIL(unpublished)developed by researchers and sex role inventory designed by Kim Deuk Ran(1992). The results of this study were as follows: 1.Sex role identities of matriarchs were feminity 13.7%, masculinity 13.4%, androgyny 37.8% and undifferentiated 35.1%. 2. The mean MIL for matriarchs was