@article { author = {Yaghoobi, Ali and Karimi, Fatemeh and Nouri, Somayeh}, title = {Female Students and Reflection in Care Ethics: The Case Study of Guilan University Students}, journal = {Journal of Family Relations Studies}, volume = {2}, number = {7}, pages = {48-56}, year = {2022}, publisher = {University of Mohaghegh Ardabili}, issn = {2980-938X}, eissn = {2980-8189}, doi = {10.22098/jhrs.2022.11339.1065}, abstract = {Objective: Care is a multidimensional concept that has been reflected in the process of modernity. The aim of this study was to investigate care ethics among female students of Guilan University.Methods: In this research, a qualitative method based on semi-structured interviews and purposive sampling was used. The statistical sample includes 33 students of Guilan University. In total, 11 interviewees were interviewed as a group and 22 interviewees as an individual. The analysis method in this research was thematic analysis.Results:  In data analysis, twelve basic themes, three organizing themes, and one global theme were obtained. The first type was autonomous girls: these types of girls are less inclined to marriage and maternal roles and less interested in circular motherhood and more inclined to linear time and they believed that a circular mother is a boring role that will reduce their agency. The second was heteronomous girls: these types of female students were in maximal motherhood level because they have known a mother with the semiotic such as sacrifice, kindness, self-sacrifice, altruism, etc. Third types of girls were eclectic: this type of female student has both a tendency to linear time (employment and education) and a cyclical time (marriage and motherhood).Conclusion:  Among the existing types, the ideal form was eclectic ethics in which female students have two ethics of heteronomy and autonomy (semiotic and symbolic).}, keywords = {female students,Care Ethics,Motherhood,autonomy,Heteronomy,Eclectic}, url = {https://jhrs.uma.ac.ir/article_1886.html}, eprint = {https://jhrs.uma.ac.ir/article_1886_14f08ae2c06bf0c7f267bb5bbe1b2bdf.pdf} }