| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 102 === This study was written in a narrative style to describe the life story for anwoman who was born in an air force military dependents' village in 1949. It aimsto investigate the vexed question of how she developed her self-image while building connection with the outside world under the traditional family values in the societies she grew up in decades ago. Family is a very important core value in Chinese culture, especially for a woman whose duty is to remain at home and take care of the family. This study looksinto the benefits and drawbacks of having such a strong prototypical value for family and how it had eventually cast her into the traditional mold of a perfect daughter which had trapped her inside this typical role for the rest of her life.
The participant described her whole life experience along these four themes: the happy family where she was born into, the self-awareness of the perfect role she tried to play, the gradually breaking extended family and her suffering from ill-health. Taking studies which looked at gender and similar family background in the 50s as references, it is evident that how women were obliged to stay at home was a common dogma of the society. This study looked into how everyone in her family dearly loved and protected her had affected her self-image and whether her self-identity of being a perfect woman had made her struggled in trying to fulfill a woman's roles in the family under the traditional family values in the societies.Her failed marriage and ill-health had helped her to develop the courage to be independent and to give her utmost to protect the family she had devoted her life to.
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