- Title
- Young women's memories of their experiences in adolescent relationships : a qualitative study
- Creator
- Breetzke, Andrea Welsh
- ThesisAdvisor
- Coughlan, Felicity
- Subject
- Teenage girls
- Subject
- Adolescent psychology
- Subject
- Teenagers
- Subject
- Parent and teenager
- Subject
- Teenage parents
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSocSc
- Identifier
- vital:690
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006366
- Identifier
- Teenage girls
- Identifier
- Adolescent psychology
- Identifier
- Teenagers
- Identifier
- Parent and teenager
- Identifier
- Teenage parents
- Description
- Democratic Government in South Africa has brought with it changes in ideology and policy as well as a focus on a new area of concern. It has recognised the importance of young people. In May 1995 the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Youth at Risk (IMC) was established to re-organise the Child and Youth Care system in order increase its effectivity in coping with vulnerable youths. The IMC proposed a new framework for understanding and working with youth based on the principle of the Sioux parenting practices, called the Circle of Courage. Traditionally, helping professionals such as social workers use western theories, such as Erikson's Psychosocial Stage theory, to understand adolescents. Both of these theories and philosophies were not developed in South Africa and there is, therefore, cause for concern as to their relevance to the diverse and unique circumstances of this country. In this qualitative study, five young South African women attending a tertiary institution were asked to tell the stories of their adolescence with specific reference to their boy/girl relationships and factors influencing these relationships. The data was gathered in one or two semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed using Miles and Huberman's (1994) broad model using data reduction (through coding), data display (with the use of two context charts and a thematic conceptual matrix)and verification and conclusion drawing (through finding synergies and contrasts between the data and the two theories). This analysis was conducted with two specific aims. The first aim was to provide a thick description of one of the women's stories to show the complexity and diversity of her experience. Secondly, synergies and contrasts were sought between the women's stories and the two theories: Erikson's stage theory and the Circle of Courage. The analysis showed strong evidence that aspects from both these theories existed in the data and that to some degree both were relevant to the experiences of these five women.
- Format
- 178 p., pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Social Work
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Breetzke, Andrea Welsh
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