This study is about conflicts between step parents and step children. It aims to find out the essence and structure about conflicts through a phenomenological study and understand the conflicts they experience in depth and in context. This study looks into the general problem, ‘how the conflicts tha...
This study is about conflicts between step parents and step children. It aims to find out the essence and structure about conflicts through a phenomenological study and understand the conflicts they experience in depth and in context. This study looks into the general problem, ‘how the conflicts that step children have experienced is’ and ‘how the essence of conflicts they’ve experienced is’.
The participants in this study were 6 step children who agreed to participate and each was interviewed in-depth two or three times for 60-80 minutes per one interview. This study uses phenomenological method of the Colaizzi, and draw 167 meaning units, 36 sub - compone nts and 12 components. The core components of conflicts that the step children experienced are ‘remarriage, it can't be helped’, ‘be concerned but be expected’, ‘feeling uncomfortable with step parents who get their way’, ‘be afraid of losing their own parents’, ‘be in a bad relationship with step brothers or step sisters’, ‘stop arguing parents’, ‘feeling lonely and sick’, ‘feeling not alone’, ‘getting along well when making efforts together’ and ‘hoping to be happy now’.
The findings of results were as follows.
At first, conflict experiences caused by parents’ remarriage accompany psychological, mental, physically and developmental pains and step children show maladaptive behaviors. It is generally about family relations and personal relations and too complicated and difficult for step children to deal with by themselves. Therefore, to understand the step children’s conflicts, we should understand various conflict experienced comprehensively caused by family, friends and communities relations.
Secondly, step children suffer from psychological pains such as confusion, guilty, worry, fear, expectation, awkward, stuffy, sorrow, anxiety, alienation, pressure, shrinking and powerlessness. Several maladjustment actions indicators are evident when they do not express these feelings. Therefore, this study suggests the necessity of professional counseling and treatment for step children to express their feelings and to be consoled.
Third, taking supportive relationships into consideration as one of the most important adjustment factors, step children should be supported to participate in group counseling programs that help them receive support and acceptance. Furthermore, education programs for reconstituted families should be prepared and then help in adaptation of the families who experience remarriage. Likewise, when supporting socially, the customized supporting systems, which help them overcome the conflict experiences and build up a positive self-concept, are needed.
Fourth, it is necessary to arrange a strategy in terms of the social support for the remarried family to participate in the program together by forging the customized program helping the remarried family overcome the conflict experience and manage their life better.
Finally, the significance of this research and the suggestion for the follow-up study are as follows.
This study is significant in having researched on how the conflict experience of the children in the remarried family has impacts on their psychological and physical developments. It is suggested that the follow-up studies developing effectively supportive mental health assistance programs such as the group counseling and the individual counseling programs should be continued, on the basis of understanding the psychological/social difficulties, strengths of the remarried family juvenile children and the psychological assistance plan suggested accordingly in this study.
Keywords: a phenomenological research method, Remarried family, remarried family juvenile children, conflict experience
This study is about conflicts between step parents and step children. It aims to find out the essence and structure about conflicts through a phenomenological study and understand the conflicts they experience in depth and in context. This study looks into the general problem, ‘how the conflicts that step children have experienced is’ and ‘how the essence of conflicts they’ve experienced is’.
The participants in this study were 6 step children who agreed to participate and each was interviewed in-depth two or three times for 60-80 minutes per one interview. This study uses phenomenological method of the Colaizzi, and draw 167 meaning units, 36 sub - compone nts and 12 components. The core components of conflicts that the step children experienced are ‘remarriage, it can't be helped’, ‘be concerned but be expected’, ‘feeling uncomfortable with step parents who get their way’, ‘be afraid of losing their own parents’, ‘be in a bad relationship with step brothers or step sisters’, ‘stop arguing parents’, ‘feeling lonely and sick’, ‘feeling not alone’, ‘getting along well when making efforts together’ and ‘hoping to be happy now’.
The findings of results were as follows.
At first, conflict experiences caused by parents’ remarriage accompany psychological, mental, physically and developmental pains and step children show maladaptive behaviors. It is generally about family relations and personal relations and too complicated and difficult for step children to deal with by themselves. Therefore, to understand the step children’s conflicts, we should understand various conflict experienced comprehensively caused by family, friends and communities relations.
Secondly, step children suffer from psychological pains such as confusion, guilty, worry, fear, expectation, awkward, stuffy, sorrow, anxiety, alienation, pressure, shrinking and powerlessness. Several maladjustment actions indicators are evident when they do not express these feelings. Therefore, this study suggests the necessity of professional counseling and treatment for step children to express their feelings and to be consoled.
Third, taking supportive relationships into consideration as one of the most important adjustment factors, step children should be supported to participate in group counseling programs that help them receive support and acceptance. Furthermore, education programs for reconstituted families should be prepared and then help in adaptation of the families who experience remarriage. Likewise, when supporting socially, the customized supporting systems, which help them overcome the conflict experiences and build up a positive self-concept, are needed.
Fourth, it is necessary to arrange a strategy in terms of the social support for the remarried family to participate in the program together by forging the customized program helping the remarried family overcome the conflict experience and manage their life better.
Finally, the significance of this research and the suggestion for the follow-up study are as follows.
This study is significant in having researched on how the conflict experience of the children in the remarried family has impacts on their psychological and physical developments. It is suggested that the follow-up studies developing effectively supportive mental health assistance programs such as the group counseling and the individual counseling programs should be continued, on the basis of understanding the psychological/social difficulties, strengths of the remarried family juvenile children and the psychological assistance plan suggested accordingly in this study.
Keywords: a phenomenological research method, Remarried family, remarried family juvenile children, conflict experience
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