本研究旨在探究成年初期離婚單身女性在婚姻歷程中及離婚後的自我轉化，以及轉化後對親密關係的影響。本研究採取敘說取向研究方法，使用「整體—內容」及「類別—內容」分析法，讓故事如實反映研究參與者的經驗，並以性別、文化及關係的觀點作為理解與分析的視框；深度訪談六位離婚單身女性（未生育小孩），年齡介於31至36歲間，且在離婚後曾再次進入異性戀之親密關係的女性。 研究發現，成年初期五位離婚單身女性自我轉化的歷程是「從『為關係失去自我』到『有我，才有我們』的心理獨立歷程」及一位是「從『為框架失去自我』到『有你，才有我們』的心理獨立歷程」，此心理獨立歷程皆呈現從「『仰賴外界』到『無所畏懼地內在肯定自我』的調適歷程」，在此歷程中分別有八個不同的自我轉變狀態，分別是：對婚姻空白下的圓夢自我、對婚姻期待落差的自我、為關係/框架失去自我、婚變後開啟反思自我、有我/有你，才有我們的自我、女性相關汙名自我、害怕親密關係再失敗的自我及無所畏懼地內在肯定自我。成年初期離婚單身女性藉由反思親密關係中的自我、親密關係及婚姻制度三者交織，促成自我轉化。 而自我轉化後對進入新親密關係的影響有三個面向：一、在親密關係中，練習轉化舊有的互動模式：（一）尊重自我（二）建立自我價值，不再倚賴外界（三）調整擇偶價值序列；二、碰撞「傳統婚姻制度」的調整：（一）重視婆媳關係（二）不再遷就框架（三）抗拒婚姻；三、離婚汙名的影響（包含社會及自我汙名）：（一）汙名影響擇偶選擇（二）將離婚當作秘密，隱瞞男方父母（三）關係中，苛刻對自己與伴侶（四）小心翼翼經營親密關係。 最後，依據研究結果進行討論，並提出相關建議。 The main purpose of this study is to understand the self-transformation of single divorced women in early adulthood and how it affects new intimate relationship afterwards. Choosing narrative approach, the holistic-content perspective and the categorical-content perspective to analysis the data which collects from in-depth interview. Having 6 single divorced women whose age between 31-36 were chosen as research participants. Using gender, relation and culture as three different frameworks to analyze the interview data. The results are as follows, The self-transformation of single early adulthood women after divorce have 2 different types. From losing self in an intimate relationship to seeing me make us whole and losing self in social framework to seeing you make us whole. Both transformations indicate these women go through the process from relying on the external subjects to relying on themselves, also from dependent to independent. There are 8 different selves included in this process: self of seeing marriage as a dream-com- true and entering marriage with blindness, self of experiencing the expectation gap in marriage, self of losing self or social framework in an intimate relationship, reflective self, self of having me or you make us whole, female-related stigma self, and self of being afraid to fail again in an intimate relationship and fearless self. Divorced single early adult women accomplish self-transformation through self-reflection, interaction within intimate relationships and the marriage system. There are 3 ways that new self affects intimate relationship after divorce : I. Those divorced women would practice the new interaction in new intimate relationship: (a) Self-respect (b) Building internal value instead of external (c) Change spouse selection criteria II. Adjusting self after having a conflict with Chinese patriarchal marriage system: (a) Value mother-daughter relationship more (b) Refusing to follow the framework in Chinese marriage system after reflecting on it. (c) Unwilling to step into marriage III. Divorce Stigma (includes public stigma and self-stigma) (a) Divorce stigma affects on spouse selection (b) Hide the divorce fact to boyfriend or fiancé's family (c) Being much stricter within intimate relationship, to self and to other half (d) Being more careful with intimate relationship.
