Stories of maternally bereaved young adults and their interpersonal relationships

Date of Publication

2016

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Thesis Adviser

Mary Grace Seranilla-Orquiza

Defense Panel Member

Roberto E. Javier, Jr.

Abstract/Summary

The main purpose of the qualitative study is to understand the stories of young adults who grew up with the absence of their mother due to early death and to explore on how this has influenced the way they form interpersonal relationships. With the use of the narrative analysis as a methodology that includes an extensive interview with six (6) participants, the study is able to describe these experiences and make sense of their stories. The narrative analysis qualitative method allowed to produce four (4) themes: (a) sense of independence, (b) drawing strength and support from friends, (c), compensation, and (d) longing for mother. For most, the participants saw both the positive and negative impact of the experience to them but gave insight and emphasis on how the experience made them stronger and shaped them to who they are today. As a result, it was also one's need for love and affection that was found in the people closest to them, which are their fathers, house helpers, siblings, friends, close relatives, and the like. With that, the people who try to fill the spot of the participant's supposed mother was highlighted as to how important these people were on shaping their well-being and beliefs. More so, the loss of a mother makes an impact as to how they make and value interpersonal relationships by how they set standards for the people they choose to be in their lives that are essential to how they gain interpersonal growth.

Abstract Format

html

Note

At head of title: Running head: Maternally bereaved young adults and their interpersonal relationships.

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU21466

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

69 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Mothers--Death; Death--Psychological aspects; Young adults--Philippines; Interpersonal relations--Philippines; Bereavement--Psychological aspects

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