Qualitative Research On Resilience Of People Exposed To Domestic Violence In Childhood

This thesis was conducted by qualitative research with a theoretical background of social construction psychology. The purpose of this study is to find out the resilience mechanism of people exposed to marital violence in childhood, especially the construction process of resilience. Through analysis of three respondents’interview by using discourse analysis and narrative research, the author found that the resilience was not only a form of subjective narrative but also a construction process between subject and domestic relationship(i.e. domestic violence). which three aspects(i.e. individual, relation and social culture) contributed to it. The results of this study are as follows:First, the resilience reflects a process of subjective construction, which reconstructs harmful domestic relationship though various positive transformations from all aspects of life. Resilience is also a cycle of construction process, which is from individual to domestic violence(relationship) to subject(individual). Secondly, the subjective construction of resilience contains three aspects:individual, relation and social culture. Individual aspect refers to reconstructing the harmful influence of domestic violence by using individual resources:Relation aspect refers to the relearning process by using relation resource(e.g. friendship, schoolmate, colleague and intimate relationship) after changing living system:Social culture refers to the influences from the dominated narrative of domestic violence, gender culture of patriarchal society and the cultural symbols of resilience. Thirdly, there is a common narrative style of people exposed to domestic violence on resilience. They always have a saturated self-narration, an externalized narration of domestic violence and a romantic drama narrative plot of "’after suffering comes happiness".