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

    Creator:
    Bolkan, Cory R.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    ........................................................... 73 B. Informed Consent ........................................................................ 76

  • Goal pursuits and mental health in later life

    Creator:
    Bolkan, Cory R.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    either (a) depressed mood or (b) loss of interest or pleasure). DSM diagnostic criteria Symptom