공부하는 엄마 대학원생의 다중역할 수행경험

Abstract

Objectives This research analyzed the physical education mother graduate student’s multiple role performance experience that raise her child. Methods For this research, 5 participants with their experience of raising elementary school children at their doctor course were recruited, and performed the qualitative case study based on the in-depth interview. Results Mother graduate students’ experiences were represented by following three topics. First, it was identified that mother graduate students’ greatest concerns were matters related to their children (no trust-worthy person to care for their children, mother’s vacancy), and the main cause of their difficulties was insufficient time (situational contexts, insufficient support from people around them), and the factor reinforcing their difficulties was negative emotions (uncertain future, the identity conflict between ‘mom’ and ‘graduate student’, and fear of negative gaze from people around them). In addition. it was identified that mother graduate students’ survival strategies were greatly influenced by the support from people around them. Second, the experiences as PE (physical education) graduate students were categorized as “small success built with help and effort” Third, the meaning of ‘studying mother’ had a meaning encompassing both positive and negative aspects. This was interpreted in four aspects of ‘positive aspect considered by their children’. ‘positive aspect as parent (main care-giver)’, ‘part requiring the children’s understanding’, and ‘overcoming concerns about their children’, and especially, positive influence of studying mother on their children was identified in the children’s educational aspect. Conclusions Studying mother graduate students’ degree acquisition process can be understood as a challenge having more meaningful in that it is worth to achieve despite plentiful hardships, and it could find that mother graduate students were overcoming difficulties in finding their own efficient ways in the process of giving up what they could not handle while being helped from people around them, and accepting real situations.