Exploring on Filipino female adolescents' experiences of parental separation using the grounded theory approach

• Main Author: Kanakarathinam, Maria Theresa Goretti, Sr.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Separated parents > Philippine; Teenagers > Philippines; Parent and teenager. and others; Parent and child > Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3736; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10574/viewcontent/CDTG004496_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The Grounded Theory method was used to explore the Filipino female adolescents' experience of parental separation. A total number of eight participants within the age bracket of 18 to 22, college adolescent girls taking the course bachelor of science in Religious Education were recruited from the Lumen Christi Catechetical Center (LCCC), a residential institution that is run exclusively for girls, using the purposive sampling method. The study was aimed to explore the Filipino adolescent girls experience of parental separation. In-depth face to face interviews with openended and probing questions were used to explore their lived experiences. The transcribed interviews, notes, observations, memos, and the literatures served as data in analyzing their experiences and explored the phenomena of their lived experiences. The four major categories a) Experience of Emotional Distress, b) Changes in Lifestyle, c) Relationship Issues, d) Spiritual Issues and, e) Life-altering Transition that emerged from the analyses were described as the outcome of the study. The central category, Life-altering Transition played its analytic power in pulling all the other major categories to an explanatory whole. Based on these findings, recommendations for the professional counseling help and program on self-esteem, self-affirmation, dealing with emotions and group dynamics and further research are forwarded.