An exploratory study into Singaporean Chinese single parents' lives after divorce : reconfiguring the family life and adapting to single-parenthood
Using qualitative interviews, this study seeks to explore the single-parenthood experiences of single-parents- how they reconfigure their family lives and adapt to the single-parent role. Particularly, this study adopts a structural symbolic interactionist root of identity theory to explore a) singl...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62433 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Using qualitative interviews, this study seeks to explore the single-parenthood experiences of single-parents- how they reconfigure their family lives and adapt to the single-parent role. Particularly, this study adopts a structural symbolic interactionist root of identity theory to explore a) single parents‘ expectations of the family b) challenges of single-parenthood life and c) the meanings attached to the processes undertaken and coping strategies adopted to adapt to the single-parent role. This study explores how social structures can facilitate or constrain single parents‘ reworking of family lives and adaptation process, particularly; the degree of reflexivity single parents can exercise. |
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