Examining the experiences of Female Graduate Students of the University of Tabriz from Absurdity and Meaningless: A Phenomenological Study

Subject Areas : Woman and family

Ali Imanzadeh ¹ , Sareyah Alipour ² , Sadegah Mohammadzadeh ³

1 - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Education, Department of Education. Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - M.A. Human Resource Development, Department of Psychology and Education, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.
3 - M.A. Human Resource Development, Department of Psychology and Education, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.

Received: 2019-04-09 Accepted : 2019-06-10 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: Lived experience, absurdity, Female Graduate Students, Meaningless,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of Female Graduate Students of the University of Tabriz from Absurdity and Meaningless. The method used is qualitative and of a kind of interpretive phenomenology. Participants in this study were 20 female graduate students of Tabriz University who were selected by purposeful sampling. The data were collected according to deep, individual and semi-structured interviews, and interviews continued until data saturation. After implementation of the interview on paper the interviews were analyzed in the Hermeneutic approach and based on Dickelman, Tanner and Allen (1998) method. The findings of the lived experiences of female graduate students of the University of Tabriz regarding the sense of absurdity and meaninglessness were identified in three main themes: "Causes and factors of absurdity and meaninglessness ", "destructive behaviors" and "ways to reduce and overcome the feeling of absurdity and meaninglessness " and 13 sub-thems. Based on the findings of the research, it is possible to come up with solutions such as reviewing government policies, training entrepreneur students, holding skills training courses, career counseling, psychological and religious counseling, and changing the pernicious traditional attitudes about this absurdity and meaninglessness feeling in this sample was overcome.

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