This study intends to predict future family by investigating cohabitation, one of the diversified family life styles. Thus, it analyzed sense of value and sense of marriage of cohabitation, current cohabitation and predicted marriage life, relation between marriage disintegration and cohabitation in order to further clarify the life of cohabiting families through them. Considering the peculiarity of study subject and the primary stage of study theme, inmate was analyzed through CQR(Consensual Qualitative Research). Ten male & female cohabiters were interviewed in-depth. Structure team and auditor also participated in study course to exclude the prejudice of researcher. The main outcome of inmate’s recognition and experience clarified by this study is as follows. First, viewing the participants’ sense of value of cohabitation, the definition of cohabitation recognized by them was the course of love. The prerequisite of cohabitation is found to be loving relation, economic capability to maintain life. The participants chose to live together for their desire to be with partner, mitigation of economic burden, psychological factor and convenience of date place. Viewing participants’ sense of marriage, they mostly intended to marry. Inmates rejected to marry due to the importance of self-development, fear of marriage, satisfaction in cohabitation, desire of free life, burdensome marriage cost. The definition of marriage they thought is officially/legally responsible relation, emotional combination. Participants said that prerequisite of marriage includes economic capability, consent of family, love. Inmates said that the motive of choosing marriage includes unexpected pregnancy, acquaintances who urge to marry, psychological stability. Participants mostly disclose cohabitation to specific person. They disclose it to original family, because original family inevitably is aware of cohabitation. Informed of the children’s cohabitation, original family is found to permit cohabitation, acknowledging cohabitation as a personal choice and the premise of marriage. When relation with original family or cohabitation is undisclosed after cohabitation, they show the aspect of interrupting relation with original family, maintaining constant relation with original family, rejecting relation with original family. It is found that the domains where experience in former cohabitation affects relation with partner have possibility of conflict. Second, viewing the reality of cohabitation, the domains of participants’ sharing economic life showed core ideas of single responsibility, common responsibility. They are found to share exclusive power, economic power on the power over economic life. Housework is usually done independently and core ideas are drawn, showing that conflict is settled during cohabitation with mutual acceptance and active solution. For affirmative aspect of cohabitation, core ideas such as understanding partner and improvement of relation, psychological stability, diminution of economic burden, convenience of date were drawn. For negative aspect, core ideas such as fear of pregnancy, acquaintances/partner who urge to marry, conflict in disclosing cohabitation, ambiguous performance of role, unfair division of housework, difference in life habit, difference in the culture with original family were drawn. The affirmative aspect of marriage life they predict shows the open and stately relation due to official-legal relation, psychological stability, guarantee of life in old age and supporting parents, providing the opportunity to be parents. The negative aspect is found to be difficulty and burden in playing the role, burden of sacrificing for family and responsibility for family, diminished personal life, burden of divorce. Third, viewing the relation between cohabitation recognized by participants and marriage disintegration, core ideas such as reduction of negative vision due to divorce, reduction of financial damage due to divorce were drawn. This study is meaningful in that it further extends the study based on the theme of cohabitation which is still in the primary level in the country. Based on this study, the suggestion for subsequent study is as follows. As cohabitation subject is quite limited for qualitative study, generalizing study outcome is subject to limit. Further, subsequent study considering age, experience in former marriage, etc. is necessary. Furthermore, cohabitation may be understood in-depth, if variables affecting the aspect of cohabitation are further investigated by expanding sense of cohabitation and actual life in the contents. ，韩语论文，韩语论文网站 |
