Date

4-29-2026

Department

School of Behavioral Sciences

Degree

Doctor of Education in Community Care and Counseling (EdD)

Chair

Mollie Evans Boyd

Keywords

pastors’ children, phenomenology, Indonesia, churches, stress, evangelical

Disciplines

Counseling

Abstract

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe the pastors’ children's experience with stress in the evangelical church on the island of Java, Indonesia. The theory guiding this study is the self-determination theory developed by Richard Ryan and Edward Deci, as it explains the existence and absence of psychological needs of organisms to grow and thrive. The theory describes the struggle of the pastors’ children in environments where the relationship with the caregivers is fundamental in determining the growth of the pastors’ children and their well-being. The theory where relatedness, autonomy, and competencies, will examine the lived life of the pastors’ children and how the fulfillment of their needs will explain their experience with stress. The methodology for the research is a qualitative study, with hermeneutic phenomenology as the research design. The data collection process was done with 10 participants through in-depth interviews and a focus group. Data analysis consisted of transcribing all the interviews and focus group records and then categorizing the themes into saturated themes. The participants of the study were the single pastors’ children aged 18-21 years old who still study and live with their parents.

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