노인부양 조직화 유형에 관한 근거 이론적 접근: 며느리의 경험을 중심으로

Abstract

This study is to discover various patterns of organizing family caregiving for the elderly. The interaction between normative dimension and exchange dimension in sharing the caregiving burden among adult children creates various patterns of organizing family caregiving. The interview on 16 primary caregiving females, daughters-in-law of dependent parents, created data, which then was analyzed by a series of procedures theoretically specified by Strauss & Corbin(1998). The result shows that the crucial factor in organizing the family caregiving for the elderly is 'subjective fairness'. The extent of parent's dependency,' 'expectation and wish of parents,' 'sibling order, 'and 'caregiving duty according to traditional norm constituted the cause and effect conditions. ‘Husband family’s value and attitudes to care for the elderly, ‘succession to a house’ and ‘lack of financial security’ constituted the contextual conditions. What emerges as interventional conditions was ‘the essence of consensus among family members’ and ‘social support’. For action/interaction strategy, there were 'seeking solutions,' ‘accepting reluctantly family member's proposal,' and ’opposing to the proposal other family members offer.' The results derived from this study were 1) ‘the real consensus among family members constructed a stable family support system,’ 2) ‘a reluctant consent to the elderly care simply accepted the situation, and 3) 'the failure to reach a reasonable consensus made a persistent backlash among family members. Based upon these results, the following four patterns were identified; 1) a stable consensus type, 2) a reluctant consent type among poor households, 3) a reluctant consent type among non-poor households, 4) the breakdown of consensus type among non-poor households. This study is to expand research direction by situating earlier studies in historical dimension. The various patterns identified in this study, combined with current research findings mostly focusing on the extent of individual burden, contributes substantially to the development of knowledge in the area of family caregiving.