How Does Single Parents Living Status Affect Their Daily Coping Strategies For Maintaining Mental Wellbeing

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How Does Single Parents' Living Status Affect Their Daily Coping Strategies For Maintaining Mental Wellbeing?

Abstract

The paper aims to investigate how single parents' living in poverty adopt their daily coping strategies to solve difficulties and minimize their psychological impacts to maintain mental wellbeing. This report employs explore 2 female single parents transcripts from an interview study (Lea, Burgoyne, Jones, & Beer, 1997) and use Grounded Theory(GT) to analyze and then generate 2 main themes which is: the difficulties from both living in poverty and being in a single parents' position will generate risk factors of mental wellbeing; Both participants had a set of daily coping strategies to minimize the impact of risk factors of mental health. The reason for using GT and both demerits and merits have been discussed.

Introduction

Qualitative approaches are employed in order to acquire an comprehension of underlying motivations and reasons, to bring insights to obscure problems for developing testable theories; facilitating to gather in depth understanding of how people make sense of their experiences, lives and their structures of the world . qualitative are different from quantitative approaches, they do not involve statistic or measurement but