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Women in urban poverty: qualitative look at coping strategies

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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Psychology.
dc.contributor.advisor Müderrisoğlu, Serra.
dc.contributor.author Tilki, Makbule Evrem.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T12:20:06Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T12:20:06Z
dc.date.issued 2007.
dc.identifier.other PSY 2007 T55
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/17159
dc.description.abstract This study aimed to conduct a qualitative research on the problems and coping strategies of the women living in urban poverty. Ten Kurdish women (20-35 years old) who lived in Tarlabaşı; one of the inner city slums of Istanbul, were interviewed and the data was analyzed using Grounded Theory (Strauss and Corbin, 1998). The results showed that the women were faced with emotional distress related with deep poverty conditions and adaptation problems related with involuntary migration. The emergent themes also depicted the way they fell outside the social life as a result of their ethnic and cultural backgrounds as well as gender roles that they grow up in. Related with the lack of personal and social resources, they used emotional coping strategies; the ones who could benefit from both emotional and problem focused coping strategies were the ones who had the chance to reach support mechanisms that enriched their resilience capacities.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.relation Includes appendices.
dc.subject.lcsh Women -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh Women -- Economic conditions.
dc.subject.lcsh Urban women -- Turkey.
dc.subject.lcsh Poor women.
dc.title Women in urban poverty: qualitative look at coping strategies
dc.format.pages x, 209 leaves;


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