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초록

영어

This qualitative case study examines how mid-life housewives perceive age, react to aging, and experience the changing of their appearance that comes with age. The participants of this study were eight housewives‒four full-time housewives and four working housewives in middle adulthood. This study was conducted through in-depth interviews that were based on an unstructured questionnaire, and the data was collected from January 2010 to October 2010. Findings are as follows: during mid-life, housewives continue to exert efforts toward self-development, and toward self-actualization that can unleash the potential of their “multi-self”. The housewives of the Entering Middle Adulthood self-actualization period believe that the material self as manifested in appearance is the most important component of the multi-self. Indeed, both groups of housewives thought a great deal about the criterion of appearance for their age and were concerned about others’ viewpoints, social stereotypes, the appearance “norm,” and other characteristics related to appearance. The full-time housewives made efforts to improve their social selves, and the working housewives tried to enhance their spiritual selves. The viewpoints of husbands are often internalized into housewives’ internal points of view; therefore the relationships of housewives with their husbands were crucial both to the confidence the women felt in their appearance, and to their satisfaction in life.

목차

〈Abstract〉
 I. 문제제기
 II. 관련 연구 경향
  1. 중년기의 구분과 특징
  2. 중년기 주부의 나이인식과 외모변화
  3. 중년기 주부의 자기발달
 III. 연구방법과 절차
 IV. 중년기 주부들의 나이인식 경험
 V. 나이에 따른 외모변화 경험
 VI. 나이 인식에 따른 외모변화 경험의 내면
 VII. 결론
 【참고문헌】

키워드

저자

• 오현정 [ 광주대학교 의상디자인학과 교수 ] 교신저자
• 김선미 [ 광주대학교 사회복지학부 가족복지 전공 교수 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  가족자원경영과 정책(구 한국가족자원경영학회지) [Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-0391

• eISSN

  2713-9662

• 수록기간

  1997~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 590 DDC 640