한일 비교를 통한 황혼 이혼 남성 노인 적응 과정 연구

This was a qualitative study to explore the studies on elderly divorce in Korea and Japan, and to understand the adaptation experience and processes of elderly men after divorce, using the grounded theory method. There were 10 participants with elderly divorce experience. The data were collected through an in-depth interview until August of 2017. As a result, a total of 103 concepts, 27 sub-categories, and 11 categories were identified through the open coding process. The process of adaptation experience showed 4 steps: perception of uncertainty and anxiety, evaluation of adaptation ability and readiness of determinations of future, adaptation trial and reformation, as well as self-control and adaptation maintaining. The 4 types of adaptation experience were positively, morphostaticly, defensively and withering. The ‘self- regulation’ and ‘relation-regulation’ theory was derived as the core category. Elderly men with elderly divorce has repeatedly attempted these strategies to gain stability from uncertainty. Based on these results, it is necessary to develop an educational program for elderly men with elderly divorce and appropriate caring intervention strategies in accordance with the types of adaptation.