Women's Life Experience of a Disordered Family in the Process of Addiction

The aim of this study was to study and understand the life experience of women of a disordered family in the process of addiction.

In this study, qualitative methodology and contextual theory method were used. Participants in this study were 25 women from South Khorasan who were in the stage of addiction withdrawal. Sampling was performed based on purposive and theoretical sampling. Data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and continued until the stage of theoretical saturation.

The results of data analysis were the achievement of five central categories and one core category. The central categories were: the unstable foundation of the family and the production of fundamental challenges, suffocation in the family and entanglement in the grip of all kinds of constraints and algebras, family breakdown and the desire for disintegration, rejection and deprivation in the family as the strategies of family punishment and isolation learning in the family. The core category of the research was: addiction in the context of the disordered family.

Based on the results of the study, it can be said that broken social relationships and social pressures in the family, along with conditions such as dropout and low level of education, compulsion to choose a spouse and experience failure and frustration in family life have multifaceted links with womenchr('39')s addiction.