As the number of foreign spouses is increasing in Taiwan, Taiwan government and scholars have paid more attention to the issue of life adaptation of foreign spouses in Taiwan. The relationship between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws is littled concerned by scholars. This research works on the interactions between Vietnamese spouses and their mother-in-laws. Most foreign Vietnamese spouses live with husband¡¦s fathers and mothers in Taiwan after their marriages. Interactions between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws are an important part of interdynamic family relationship, which generate influence on the harmony of their families. Thus, this research aimed at Vietnamese wivies, and on the basis of the development of interpersonal relationship, to further probe into the setting up and development of the relationship between Vietnamese spouses and Taiwanese mother-in-laws, and how Vietnam wivies face the conflict with their mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws.
As for the research method, indepth interview is taken. Interviewer carries on deep interview with aimed persons under a guide of interview outlines of semi-structured interviews. Study samples were mainly Vietnamese spouses who have got married over two years, and at present live with their Taiwanese mother-in-laws in the Kaohsiung area. Through the way of purposive sampling and snowball sampling, eighteen Vietnamese wives are selected as the interviewing targets, and paid a visit to deeply investigate the subjective opinions of their mother-in-laws, the relationship-build process with mother-in-laws, how to keep the harmony between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws, and how to face the conflicts between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws.
The research shows that the relationship between Vietnamese spouses and Taiwanese mother-in-laws roughly keep the harmonious state. And there are four significant themes during the relation-developing process between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws, they are (1) ¡¥mother-in-laws take the initiative¡¦ is the first step to establish the relations with their daughter-in-laws. During the initial stage of this relationship, the attitude of mother-in-laws toward daughter-in-laws plays the main factor to influence the relationship in the future. (2) ¡¥The role playing¡¦ is the basis of maintaining the relationship between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws. In daily life, the role playing is the main way to keep relationship harmonious between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws. (3) The attitudes of mother-in-laws and husband¡¦s family could influence the relationship between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws, and lead to more familiar or stagnate. Due to Vietnamese spouses take the most frequently interactions with husband¡¦s family after coming to Taiwan, the attitudes of mother-in-laws and husband¡¦s family would influence the development of the relationship between moth-in-laws and daughter-in-laws. (4) As foreign spouses have married to Taiwan for a longer period of time, they would take more active ways than those newly married to Taiwanese husbands when encountering conflicts with mother-in-laws.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0123109-083112 |
| Date | 23 January 2009 |
| Creators | Chang, Chun-Man |
| Contributors | none, none, Wen-Hui Tang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0123109-083112 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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