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Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2007;16(4):411-419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2007.16.4.411    Published online December 31, 2007.
The Lived Experiences of the Middle-aged Women’s Anger
Yongmi Lee
Post-doc. Fellow, School of Nursing, the University of Michigan
중년여성의 분노 경험에 대한 현상학적 연구
이용미
미시건 대학교 박사 후 과정
Correspondence:  Yongmi Lee,
Email: yongmlee@umich.edu
Received: 30 August 2007   • Accepted: 7 December 2007
Abstract
Purpose
This study was done to understand the essences and the meanings of anger experiences in middle-aged women.
Methods
Van Manen's hermeneutical phenomenological method was used. Data were collected by in-dept interviews with eight middle-aged women who were from forties to sixties, fictions, essays and a TV drama script.
Results
Surges surfaced by lost meaning of one's otherwise elaborated life: Situational context of breaking the balance of one's stable life. Self-internalization to subside conflict: A part of middle-aged women's efforts to suppress and swallow anger. The writhe of expressing desperation to be recognized: The expressed anger experience by actually letting their anger surface and expressing to others. Unmanageable weight of one's hurt: This part indicates how they conceive their anger experiences. When the anger lump continue to accumulate in their mind, it can cause excessive and irrational responses.
Conclusion
Four essential themes move not in one dimension, but in more dynamic and circulating characteristics. Also, the middle-aged women's anger experiences, which are formed under unique Korean socio-cultural contexts and moral values, imply their efforts to maintain harmonious relations with others, with an exclusion of self-centered thoughts, and more towards relationship with others.
Key Words: Middle aged; Women; Anger; Phenomenology


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