Whei-Ching Liu
Department of Psychology Soochow University
This article is to explore the social constructing processes of motherhood in Taiwan from female adolescents’ perspective. 54 female adolescents were interviewed by initial interview, focus group, and depth interview processes to explore how they perceive their mothers, and how they identify with their mothers as women. Results were presented in terms of mother images, mothers in different contexts, girls’ context reading processes, and the changes of mother-daughter relationships.
Keywords: female adolescent, mother-daughter relationship, motherhood, social construction