From Negative Feeling to Well Adjusted Person: Experience of Middle Aged Women in Empty Nest Phase

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10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adjustment, empty-nest, empty-nest syndrome

Abstract

The empty nest phase is a phenomenon occurs when the child begins to run their independent life. Empty nest syndrome refers to feelings of loss or grief experienced by parents, mostly mothers since most of her time spent by parenting. A good adjustment is highly recommended to the parents, especially mothers in order to cope the empty-nest syndrome in a positive way. The aim of this research was to find the stage of the adjustment process of middle-aged women in empty-nest phase. This research used qualitative method with phenomenological approach. The population of the study was women in midlife who entering empty nest phase. By purposive sampling method, the writers had three families as respondents in empty nest phase. The data were collected using interview and observation technique, with theoretical coding analysis technique. By this research, the writers found five stages of the adjustment process, they are: negative feeling, flashback memory, get used to the empty nest, universality & adjustment to the empty nest.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ni Km. Peby Darmayanthi
AU  - Made Diah Lestari
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - From Negative Feeling to Well Adjusted Person: Experience of Middle Aged Women in Empty Nest Phase
BT  - Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 138
EP  - 143
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20
DO  - 10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20
ID  - Darmayanthi2018/07
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