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Publication Date: 2022
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Advice for Academician Mothers with Only Child: "I Wish He Had a Brother"
International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, v9 n2 p509-524 2022
The purpose of this research is to reveal what kind of reactions academic mothers get from having a only child and their thoughts on having a child again. In this study, descriptive phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. The study group of research was composed of 9 academician mothers (32-51 age range; age range at marriage: 22-35; duration of the marriage; between 7-23 years) with an only child (5-25 age range), using the criterion sampling method, which is one of the purposive sampling methods. Inclusion criteria for the research; They are academicians who have a child of at least 5 years old and have only child. A semi-structured interview was used to collect the data. Content analysis was used to analyze the data collected. As a result of the analysis, the theme of "I wish he had a brother" was reached. As a result, it has been seen that academic mothers with one child are supported by their spouses to have one child; however, most of them want to have a second child. tap here to enter text.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Phenomenology, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Family Size, Siblings, Teacher Characteristics, Content Analysis, Spouses, Foreign Countries
International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies. Sakarya University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Sakarya, Turkey. e-mail: ijpesjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/pes
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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