Experiences of single mothers with adolescent children

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25670972
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Kochi University
• Principal Investigator: IKEUCHI Kazuyo 高知大学, 教育研究部医療学系看護学部門, 教授 (50584413)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: シングルマザー / 思春期の子ども / 家族の発達危機 / 生きる力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

"Mixed methods research" was used to clarify the experience of single mother's "a source of living power" against "crisis of family development" where children are at puberty.
The subject was suffering from child-rearing of adolescents and had concern about the future of children. However, while having the power to borrow the power of the surroundings based on the generous efforts to responsible care and the everyday ingenuity that lives positively, there was a strong ability to overcome anguish in each of the subjects. The support of that power was a positive feeling that brings out expectations for children's growth, their own perspective, and approving themselves. In other words, these experiences were thought to be "a source of living power" by a single mother, and our study demonstrates it is necessary to support on it.

Free Research Field

看護学