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Personal action constructs and the long term care ombudsman role : linking personal projects and possible selves in personal research

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Bolkan, Cory R.

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This study explored potential linkages between personal projects (Little, 1983) and possible selves (Markus, 1986), two mid-level units of analyses in personality research. The primary goal of this research was to bridge participants' current project as state volunteer ombudsmen for care facilities, to their future, hoped-for selves. This relationship was...

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Masters Thesis

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future-oriented self. They can function as an important extension of one's current goals or pursuits
Goal pursuits and mental health in later life

Creator:

Bolkan, Cory R.

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Grounded in life span theory, this study explored how personal goals (as measured by possible selves) related to depressive symptoms in older adults. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they would like to become (hoped-for selves) and what they are afraid of becoming (feared selves). Possible selves are also...

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Dissertation