一位未婚中年女性生涯轉換之敘說探究：生命重要事件的影響

The narrative research on career transition of a middle-aged unmarried woman: The impact of important life incident

蕭韻文(Yun-Wen Hsiao)

《臺灣教育評論月刊》 9卷8期 (2020/08) Pp. 217-243

摘要

本文以敘事研究法探討一位未婚中年女性的生命故事，以期瞭解生涯轉換歷程中的心理調適與學習歷程，以建構未來生涯藍圖。以「整體－內容」、「類別－內容」模式為焦點，著重在受訪者生命故事整全脈絡的呈現。從研究結果得知受訪者的原生家庭的家庭氛圍、教養內容及社會與家庭期待均是影響其生涯發展與選擇的關鍵原因，信仰和關懷網絡則是重要的精神支持來源；而投入學習是最佳增能方式，參與探索與成長活動，專業技能與知能培訓的課程，志工服務以堅定自我價值的信念，開創美好未來生涯來藍圖。最後就個人與研究上提供建議。

關鍵字

未婚中年女性 ； 生命重要事件 ； 生涯轉換 ； 敘說探究

並列摘要

This research adopted narrative research method. The focuses are complete personal life stories presented through ＂integer-content＂ and ＂category-content＂ it emphasizes on presentation of whole sequence of ideas about interviewee' life story. The middle-aged unmarried woman have been interviewed. this research concluded with findings as follows: 1. There is close relationship between early experiences and career development of middle-aged unmarried woman which includes factors on upbringing content from original family and expectation from society and family. 2. Belief and caring web is a psychological adaptation support source for the middle-aged unmarried woman. 3. Through learning approaches on process of career transition, it can help to face her difficult position in career again with positive cognitive and attitude, to steady their faith on self-value. 4. Exploration and growth activities, courses of professional skills and competency training and volunteer service learning can mostly respond to present demand on life issues. Finally, this research brings up suggestions in two dimensions, individual of single middle-aged woman and researches in the future.

並列關鍵字

middle-aged unmarried female ； important life incident ； career transition ； narrative research