本文是研究者對家庭和家人間所產生的相互關係和複雜問題，進行敘說的研究，而家庭和家人是所有人從出生會最先接觸的生活環境和影響人一生最大的地方，也是所有人一生都需要依賴和扶持的生長環境。然而今日台灣西化社會己成形，傳統家庭已逐漸瓦解沒落。現今的社會複雜多元重疊性質的家庭組合，讓生活於其中的家庭成員備感窒息，卻無能為力。 本研究以一位成長於父權傳統主導下家庭的中年男性為研究參與者，針對他生命成長過程中的自我認同為焦點，進行其生命故事的敘說研究。並探討家庭結構由一般家庭改變為一屋二妻之家庭，再到分家的過程中，家庭成員彼此在婚姻關係、親子互動、人際適應上的諸多衝突，中年男性如何經歷自我認同發展、家庭認同等現實課題，並在面臨婚姻、親子與事業挫折時，調整自己再次出發。 本研究採用Lieblich等提出的「整體─內容」敘事分析方法，進行文本的分析研究，期待對研究參與者的生命故事有深入的探索。研究參與者在人生低谷時期，回顧自己的生命故事，想尋回自己對生命的熱情動力，並重新理解自己、接受自己，再重新出發。研究結果發現本文中年男性僅管不願重蹈上一代家庭關係不佳之覆轍，仍無可避免的在世代間傳遞，經由家人與宗教團體支持，幫助研究參與者順利的修正調整自已。 This narrative research is based on the complicated problems and relationships between the researcher and family members. People initially are depended on their family members after being born as well as affected by family for requiring living supports. However, the westernized society of Taiwan made traditional family collapse and decline, bringing complicated and pluralistic family combinations which made family members exhausted and oppressive. The research is to narrate a life story by focusing on the self-identification within personal life growth process through a middle-aged male who was dominated by traditional patriarchy family. Furthermore, the research also is to explore how this male go through the development of self-identification and family identification, and modify himself when facing frustrations of marriage, parent-child and business issues, by discussing the changes of family structure from general family to the family with two wives, and later to separate. The ways of narrative analysis referred by Lieblich are adopted to analyze the texts, anticipating scrutinizing life story of the participant, scrutinizing how the participant retrieves his passion of life and re-comprehends and accepts himself to start again. The results reveal that albeit the participant attempted to get rid of the problems of family relationship of last generation, he was still inevitable to seek help from family members and religious groups to modify himself.
