| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 教育心理與諮商研究所 === 96 === Abstract
When people with depression are concerned, members of their family tend to have high-risk of maladjustment. While dealing with their loved ones’ depressive episodes, hospitalizations, and the process of resilience causes frustrations and adjustment problems for some family members, some can adjust positively. Researchers have long since been interested in the differences observed. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the interaction between depressed patients and their family and how it impacts resilience process throughout the struggle with depression.
Three family members, who also take on the role of care-taker, with depressed loved ones will be interviewed. They will be asked to describe the psychological experience of battling with depression with the patient. The research intends to understand, when family members interact with their depressed loved ones, the crisis and hardship that might exert on these them from a biological, psychological, social, and economical perspective. Furthermore, the research tries to investigate the factors in influencing family members undergoing the adversity experiences and how these factors revolve into the experience of resilience and positive adjustment.
The research is a qualitative study with the method of “narrative study” implied. By using half-structured interview, researchers collect narratives of family’s experience of dealing with the obstacles of having a loves one with depression. Once data is collected, narrative analysis will be implemented on analyzing the whole content. In addition, factor analysis will be employed with content-category method. Lastly, the process of resilience will be examined.
The result finds that, when examining from psychological, biological, social, and economical perspectives, psychological experiences are most negative among family members with depressed loved ones. Personal factors, family factors, and social factors interact and divert to “direct influence”, “indirect influence”, and “interactive influence” pathways that lead to signs of resilience. These factors include family stability, reconstruction of the experience of depression’s self-impact, belief in ability to change, ability and anticipation to help others, and willingness to share.
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