生命意義的再建構－以喪子女父母為例

Life-Meaning Reconstruction of Bereaved Parents

何賢文(Hsien-Wen Ho) ； 許鶯珠(Ying-Chu Hsu)

《生死學研究》 6期 (2007/07) Pp. 125-189

https://doi.org/10.29844/JLDS.200707.0005

摘要

本研究旨在探討喪子（女）父母，在死亡事件發生後，對生命意義不同的體驗與領悟之主觀經驗，採取質性研究法中的深度訪談蒐集資料，透過受訪者的觀點了解父母面對子女的死亡時，如何從對生命的無望，到重新找到生命的意義。本研究共訪談了六位喪子（女）父母（二男四女），由資料分析後發現：
（一）喪子女父母在面對子女死亡事件的敘說。
（二）喪子女父母在子女死亡後才開始探討或碰觸死亡問題。
（三）喪子女父母的人生觀會因為子女死亡而改變。
（四）在子女死亡前，父母親的生活目標多以工作賺錢為目的；面對子女死亡事件，這些父母親在經歷喪慟之後，生活目標開始轉向利他服務。
（五）宗教信仰、重新詮釋子女的死亡及利他服務是喪子女父母重建生命意義的重要因素。

關鍵字

喪子女父母 ； 生命意義 ； 再建構 ； 子女死亡

並列摘要

The research explores about the bereaved parents has different experience of meaning of life and awakening of subject experience after a child died. It is adopted for deep-interview of the qualitative method to understand the bereaved parents how to face the deceased child and find the meaning of life through despair of living. There are six participators losing their child include two men and for females. There are five themes after data analysis:
1. The bereaved parents describe how to face and talk about child-decease happening.
2. The bereaved parents begin to explore or touch death problems after their child died.
3. The bereaved parents change their philosophy while their child dying.
4. The bereaved parents change their living object from making money to conducing service while facing their child died.
5. Religious, reinterpreting and conducing service are three important factors to help th bereaved parents to restructure their meaning of life.

並列關鍵字

Bereaved Parent ； Life Meaning ； Reconstruction ； dead child