Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)

From Negative Feeling to Well Adjusted Person: Experience of Middle Aged Women in Empty Nest Phase

Authors
Ni Km. Peby Darmayanthi, Made Diah Lestari
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Ni Km. Peby Darmayanthi
Available Online July 2018.
DOI
10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20How to use a DOI?
Keywords
adjustment, empty-nest, empty-nest syndrome
Abstract

The empty nest phase is a phenomenon occurs when the child begins to run their independent life. Empty nest syndrome refers to feelings of loss or grief experienced by parents, mostly mothers since most of her time spent by parenting. A good adjustment is highly recommended to the parents, especially mothers in order to cope the empty-nest syndrome in a positive way. The aim of this research was to find the stage of the adjustment process of middle-aged women in empty-nest phase. This research used qualitative method with phenomenological approach. The population of the study was women in midlife who entering empty nest phase. By purposive sampling method, the writers had three families as respondents in empty nest phase. The data were collected using interview and observation technique, with theoretical coding analysis technique. By this research, the writers found five stages of the adjustment process, they are: negative feeling, flashback memory, get used to the empty nest, universality & adjustment to the empty nest.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.20How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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