本研究以詮釋現象學為基礎，以非自願未婚的三十歲以上職業婦女為研究對象，透過三位研究參與者的半結構深度訪談取得文本資料，進行視域化的綜合分析，經由他們對於自身經驗的意義詮釋，呈現非自願未婚女性在等待婚姻過程中的經驗。 非自願未婚女性是被動的接受目前的單身狀態，她們還是期待有朝一日可以結婚的，所以在心裡上會面臨比較多的存在挫折，加上在以結婚為主流的社會價值觀下，或多或少多會遭遇旁人輿論的壓力。 研究發現非自願未婚女性有以下的經驗特徵：（1）對未來婚姻充滿了不確定性，心裡沒有踏實感；（2）承受父母、親友的催婚壓力及社會的負面觀感；（3）面臨存在挫折，陷入焦慮、無意義、孤獨與自我認同危機之中；（4）改變現狀尋求新的人生意義與對未來生活預先做計劃。 本研究對於日益增多的單身族群，提供了當事人經驗觀點的初步還原與解析，實務上可協助修正社會大眾對未婚者的刻板印象，並就有關政府單位及未來研究者提出具體建議。 This study is rooted on interpretive phenomenology as its research foundation. The research participants are over 30 years old of non-voluntary unmarried career women. The research text is acquired from semi-structural in depth interviewing with three participants. The text is then analyzed by fusion of horizons, with interpretation of the meaning for their own experience by the participants, the author tried to show the experience of non-voluntary unmarried women in the process of waiting for marriage. The non-voluntary unmarried women are passive to accept the unmarried status. However, they look forward to getting married one day. That’s why they will suffer more existential frustration. Besides, under the society that takes getting married as the mainstream value, they will suffer some pressure from the public. The study revealed the following experience characteristics of the non-voluntary unmarried women:（1）fell uncertain and unstable for the future; （2）suffer the pressure of hasted marriage from parents, relatives and friends; and the negative viewpoint from the public; （3）face the existential frustration, fall in anxiety, meaningless, loneliness and crisis of self-identity;（4）change the current situation and find the new meaning of life, plan the future life in advance. This study provides a primary interpretive reduction and analysis from the increasing group of singles. In practice, it can help readers in modifying their fixed image on the unmarried women and offer some concrete suggestions for related government units and future researchers.
