Female Middle Adulthood: an Existential and Phenomenological Analysis

Student: Leonova Irina

Educational Programme: Counselling Psychology. Personology (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This master’s thesis examines the period of women's middle adulthood from the point of view of modern existential analysis. The purpose of this study is to explore the content and conditions of the subjective experiences of women in middle adulthood in their everyday life, with the subsequent identification of the leitmotifs of these experiences and their differentiation in terms of their potential to become constraints or resources for existential fulfilment. A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted, which resulted in the detailed thematic maps reflecting the main themes of women's subjective experiences of the period, and the main existential contents of these experiences. This made it possible to identify the limitations and resources for achieving existential fulfilment based on the fundamental motivations theory and personal existential analysis.

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