섹스리스 부부의 결혼유지 과정-중년 기혼 여성을 중심으로- = A Study on Sexless Couples` Maintenance of Marital Status- Focusing on Married Middle-aged Women -

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study aims to understand the process of staying in a sexless marriage and suggest a substance theory that explains how married middle-aged women experiencing sexless maintain their marriage. The study was conducted using in-depth interviews with twelve women aged between 40 and 60. This qualitative research used a grounded theory method by Strauss and Corbin (1998) to explore experiences of married middle-aged women in the process of keeping their sexless marriage.The central phenomenon in this study, which is ‘to maintain a marriage with a sense of responsibility’, means that although a sexless relationship may cause unsatisfaction and distress to the married middle-aged women at times, they feel the sense of responsibility towards their children and marriage and tries to do their best with their roles.The results of the study suggest that helping married couples recognize conflicts and confusion of values of marriage would be an effective approach in marriage counseling. The purpose of this study is to offer basic materials for professional marriage counseling for sexless couples by comprehensively understanding the stages of maintaining sexless marriage.

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