Low-Income Turkish Mothers’ Conceptions and Experiences of Family Life

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dc.contributor.authorKılıç, Ezgi
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-02T08:52:28Z
dc.date.available2022-11-02T08:52:28Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-14
dc.description.abstractAbstract: The current qualitative study explores women’s conceptions of the normative family and their day-to-day family lives. To that aim, we conducted five focus group interviews in two low-income neighborhoods of Istanbul. The sample included 43 women (42 biological mothers and a grandmother) who had at least one child between ages 3 and 8 in their care. Participants were 35.64 years old on average (SD = 4.74) and were all married. Women had approximately two children (SD = 0.72) whose mean age was 7.92 years old (SD = 3.11). Each focus group was semi-structured, lasted for 1–1.5 h, and included 5–12 participants. Thematic analysis of the focus group interview data, moderator memos, and observer’s notes revealed five defining features of healthy family functioning: cohesion, healthy child, parenting, conflict, control, and family organization. Overall, women prioritized motherhood over their other social identities and idealized the happy family, which contradicted their actual lived experiences in the family system. We discuss how women’s depictions of all family processes revolved around cultural constructs of gender, socio-economic status, and independence/interdependence. The findings of this study shed light on future interventions for low-income women and their families in Turkey. Copyright © 2022 Erdem, Adli-Isleyen, Baltalarlı and Kılıç.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2021.756278en_US
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.pmid35237200en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85125399662en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/4636
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.756278
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000761660300001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors4en_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.Aen_US
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectfamily functioningen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectindependenceen_US
dc.subjectinterdependenceen_US
dc.subjectlow-income familiesen_US
dc.subjectnormative family processesen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleLow-Income Turkish Mothers’ Conceptions and Experiences of Family Lifeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume12en_US

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