How to Face Loss: A Case Study on the Self-evolution of Empty-nesters Whose Children Are Abroad

Wang Tangsheng; Ding Yicheng; Jiang Mingzhuang; Tang Jianing

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How to Face Loss: A Case Study on the Self-evolution of Empty-nesters Whose Children Are Abroad

Wang Tangsheng, Ding Yicheng, Jiang Mingzhuang, Tang Jianing

Published in Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 5)

Received: 5 August 2021 Accepted: 31 August 2021 Published: 7 September 2021

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Abstract

Many researches have been conducted on the elders to find out what they do after they are left in the nursing homes and without any relatives, but there has been little focus on the relationship between the researchers and the elder people. Under this circumstance, we are here to try to figure this out. This research conducted ethnographic methods to study the self-evolution of empty-nesters, by observing and interviewing an empty nester whose children are abroad 41 times for 43 months. The background is in a Wuhan nursing home, where most residents only can communicate to their fellow residents, the staff and the interviewers. The have little communication with their children and when they do it will be via phone. The results found that the presence of the children who is highly recognized in their career or in their personality and other things by the individual cases and the presence of the researcher talking and interviewing them reduced their sense of reality and increased the possibility of conflict with others around her. The study concluded that the loss of important social relations caused the loss of their self-value, and eventually led to emotional and cognitive impairment, continuous elderly observation was of great significance to both the researchers and the subjects.

Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20210905.12
Page(s)	136-144
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Loss, Self-evolution, Sense of Reality, Object

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Wang Tangsheng, Ding Yicheng, Jiang Mingzhuang, Tang Jianing. How to Face Loss: A Case Study on the Self-evolution of Empty-nesters Whose Children Are Abroad. Humanit Soc Sci. 2021;9(5):136-144. doi: 10.11648/j.hss.20210905.12

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Wang Tangsheng

School of Marxism, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Ding Yicheng

Shanghai Foreign Language School, Shanghai, China
Jiang Mingzhuang

School of Law, Humanities and Sociology, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Tang Jianing

School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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