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Creator:: Choun, Soyoung
Abstract:: Optimal aging is strongly related to personality factors along with health-behavior habits. Personality has played a key role in understanding the interactions between human behavior and the environment and as a vital predictor in determining health outcomes of individuals. Although previous studies have found links between personality traits and health,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: thank Dr. Carolyn Aldwin for her creative suggestions on my dissertation and valuable advice given at

Creator:: McDermott, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: This thesis presents the steps that were taken to develop thematic findings using data from a qualitative study. Using a grounded approach, the study focused on qualitatively exploring Mexican origin caregivers' conceptualizations of elder caregiving in terms of role functioning, social norms, cultural beliefs, and familial obligations. Data collected from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________________________________ Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck Karen Hooker This thesis presents the steps that were taken to

Creator:: Allen, Pamela M.
Abstract:: Ageism in the context of global population aging could lead to increasing human and economic costs. Age stereotypes tend to be negative (Hummert, 1990) and ubiquitous (Nelson, 2002) there are a variety of well documented detrimental consequences of negative age stereotypes on older adults' physical, cognitive and psychological outcomes (Hummert,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Pamela M. Allen

Creator:: Hall, Brandi June
Abstract:: Caregiving circumstances frequently evoke high levels of stress for caregivers and have consistently been linked to adverse psychological and physical health consequences. Within the caregiving literature, researchers have sought to answer questions about why some individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to the well-established deleterious consequences of caregiving stress. Several...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: symptoms can be accounted for by stress and coping variables (Aldwin, 2007). Because personality may

Creator:: Cox, Michelle J.
Abstract:: The goal of this study was to pursue the construct of transcendence from a psychosocial, developmental perspective to predict who will volunteer and its influence on the average number of volunteer hours worked per week. The predictor variable is the self-transcendence subscale score on the Adult Self-Transcendence Inventory (ASTI) (Levenson...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: spirituality, and a greater sense of direction with past and future generations” (Levenson, Jennings, Aldwin

Creator:: Levaro, Elizabeth Bayler
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I explore how women and men in later life experience the world of dating and the pursuit of new intimate relationships. Although the mortality gap between women and men at older ages is narrowing, as they enter their 70s, 80s, and 90s, there are still at least...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: replacement. Special thanks also to Dr. Carolyn Aldwin and Dr. Rick Levinson, who welcomed me into their lab

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