여성 한부모가족 당사자 간 멘토링 프로그램 참여 경험에 관한 질적 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore in depth what female single-parent families experience while participating in the ‘Mentoring Program among Single-parent Families’. The mentoring program was conducted by Welfare Institute A in 2021 and participated as a family unit with their children. The mentoring program was conducted for 8 months from April to November 2021, and included pre-interviews, mentor group meetings, and team-specific mentoring activities(6 times, 3 hours each). After the mentoring program was completed, in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 female single parents who agreed to participate in the study. The collected data were approached by the thematic analysis method. As a result of analyzing the in-depth interviews, the 5 upper-topics and 19 sub-topics were derived. The 5 upper-topics derived from the interview are as follows: ‘the start of a meaningful meeting’, ‘emotional connectedness between female single parents’, ‘self-understanding and efforts for growth as a single parent mother’, ‘female single parents who have been shrunk social relationships, restarted relationships’, ‘development of my child’s social skills and peer relationships’. Each upper-topics was sbudivided into 3∼4 sub-topics. Based on the results of this study, paractical and policy suggestions were presented to support female single-parent families.