Journal of Digital Convergence (디지털융복합연구)

The Society of Digital Policy and Management (한국디지털정책학회)
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A Qualitative study on Difficulties experienced and Coping process of Remarried elderly

재혼 노인이 겪는 어려움과 대처과정에 대한 질적 연구

  • Received : 2016.08.26
  • Accepted : 2016.11.20
  • Published : 2016.11.28
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Abstract

This study aims to understand the experiences of remarried elderly from the social, cultural point of view. The study subjects were randomly selected 3 remarried couples with age higher than 65 who could express their experience enough. This study adapted qualitative study with grounded theory method by Strauss and Corbin(1998), which deducted 126 significant sentences from the testimony of participants and classified those into 48 topics and categorized into 16. As for the study result, the main phenomenon was the "ambivalence of marriage" and the mediation conditions for controlling were "trust and acknowledgement of spouse and family", and "proper compensation", and the reaction/mutual reaction strategy to correspond to this situation was "to put effort to understand spouse". Such results will contribute to understanding the essence of marriage adjustment of remarried elderly, and are expected to be the fundamental material to tend to realistic problems that the widowed elderly face and to lead successfully remarriage.

본 연구의 목적은 재혼한 노인들이 겪는 경험의 세계를 사고방식 및 생활양식 속에 내재되어 있는 의미뿐만 아니라 사회 문화적 맥락에서 이해하기 위해서이다. 연구대상자는 자신의 경험을 충분히 표현할 수 있는 65세 이후 재혼한 부부 3쌍을 임의표집 하였다. Strauss와 Corbin(1998)의 근거이론방법을 적용한 질적 연구이며, 참여자 진술로부터 86개의 의미 있는 문장을 도출하고 30개의 주제로 구분하여 13개로 범주화하였다. 연구결과 중심현상은 '결혼생활에 대한 양가감정'이었으며, 이를 조율해 나가는 중재조건은 '배우자와 가족들의 인정과 신뢰', '적절한 보상'이었으며 이를 대처하도록 고안된 작용/상호작용전략은 '배우자를 이해하려고 노력하기'로 나타났다. 이상의 결과들은 재혼 노인의 결혼생활 적응과정에 대한 본질을 이해하는데 도움이 될 것이며, 이를 통해 성공적인 재혼생활을 영위하고 홀로된 노인들이 당면하고 있는 현실적인 문제에 접근할 수 있는 기초자료가 되기를 기대한다.

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