Unfolding The Inmates' Spouses Tale of Sorrow During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study was to determine the difficulties of every inmates spouse suffer a lot due to the imprisonment of their husband and the start of covid19 pandemic. The study focus on the negative outcome and the emotion of every inmates spouses. And It argue that the initial shock of incarceration challenged these spouses‟ assumptive worlds, but they managed to overcome this crisis by finding meaning in the pandemic outbreak experience and using it as an opportunity for personal development. The respondent was having a trouble finding ways to survive in life due to covid19 pandemic and the imprisonment of their husband. It challenge them to be strong to stand in the most difficult time. The study found the following findings there were grouped together through themes such as (1) Family First regardless of everything, (2) Uncertainty of Family's future, (3) Facing Difficulty and Depressed on the situation, (4) Stand alone to face the challenges, (5) Pandemic Exacerbated Burden. generally, most of the participants have endured hardship and trouble finding work as a result of the pandemic. The inmates spouses struggled being a victim of epidemic may have significant connections with emotional behaviors. Based on the findings and conclusions, the researcher would like to recommend that inmate‟s spouses have a positive thinking and to look forward in the life. They should constantly have a strategy in place for how to obtain work while keeping the children's circumstances in mind, so that they may do their jobs without hesitation.