Lived experience of religiously educated mothers of social activism

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Shahid Beheshti University

2 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

3 Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran

Abstract

Balancing family and social roles is a serious issue for religiously educated mothers that transcends theoretical challenges, complexities, and practical difficulties .The aim of this study is to discover practical answers on how to balance family roles and social activities. Recent emphasis on the risk of population aging and the need for more children among these groups adds to the need for this research .Thus by taking a qualitative approach , twenty-six women born in the sixties who had significant social activism in addition to motherhood and marital roles were interviewed And content analysis method was used to analyze the data. In the findings section , role-regulating factors in the four themed networks discovered include individual role-regulating factors, contextual strategies situational strategies and organized support strategies. Finally a conceptual role model was developed, the most important advantage of which is adaptability to the coordinates of people's lives and its fluidity.

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