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  • Long-distance caregivers and stress

    Creator:
    Kolb, Karen N.
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    Grounded in the life course perspective, this study examined stress among long-distance caregivers, asking whether stress levels vary by family relation to the care recipient or by geographic distance. A growing older adult population forecasts a corresponding need for caregivers. Although family members are the primary source of care for...
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    lives in our society, there has been an increase in the number of people with chronic illnesses, health

  • 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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    was associated with depressive symptoms. The presence of health related possible selves was

  • How women negotiate family responsibilities and personal health

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    Ourada, Verna E. Zehner
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    Women’s health affects women and society as a whole. In addition to paid employment, women provide unpaid labor as they care for their families, their homes, and ailing relatives. Only by staying healthy can women provide care to their families. Using a feminist perspective, this study examined how women manage...
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    developing metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of health problems including diabetes. The

  • Taking a broader approach : longitudinal effects of personality on the physical health of spouse caregivers in two disease groups

    Creator:
    Hall, Brandi June
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    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...
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    investigated dimension of the Big-Five traits within the psychology and health literature (Williams, 2006

  • Depression risk : an examination of rural low income mothers

    Creator:
    Guyer, Amy M.
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    This study used a multi-method approach to explore factors associated with high and low depression in a sample of rural mothers living in poverty. From a sample of 117 women with very high or very low CES-D depression scores, 40 cases were randomly selected for in-depth qualitative analysis. Qualitative comments...
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    variety of issues were explored including health, mental health, childcare, transportation, community

  • Resilience in adulthood : turning points and generativity

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    Notter, Megan L.
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    This analysis uses data from a larger ethnographic study examining community effects of mobile home park residence on child and youth development to explore the resilient pathways of 8 mothers and maternal guardians in order to understand better how successful adaptation is achieved despite significant threats present throughout the life...
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    provide health insurance and the opportunity for economic stability. The affordability of the mobile

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

    Creator:
    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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    guiding them towards their desired outcomes. William James, the founder of American psychology, first

  • Personality traits and mental health of spouse caregivers in two disease groups : Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

    Creator:
    Lee, Soyoung Choun
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    A consistent research question in caregiving is why caregivers show individual differences in their abilities to manage stress. This study focuses on the personality traits of spouse caregivers to assess individual differences which enable them to adapt to their particular caregiving situation. Previous research has established concurrent relationships between personality...
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  • Coming of age in rural America : sense of purpose, coping, and perceived progress toward adulthood

    Creator:
    Dolenc, Brooke J.
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    Individuals in their 20s today have more diverse experiences with school, work, and family transitions than previous cohorts. Contemporary young adults take longer to finish school, settle into marriages or partnerships, and begin parenting; they frequently change jobs or hold multiple part-time positions. Little is known about how young adults...
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    , such as a lack of health insurance for the part-time jobs young adults often hold (Furstenberg

  • Mothering a child with autism in the United States and in South Korea

    Creator:
    You, Hyun-Kyung
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    In this dissertation, I qualitatively examined the meaning of mothering a child with autism in two countries: the United States and South Korea. The overarching research question focused on how sociocultural ideas about mothering and disability, particularly autism spectrum disorders, shape women’s understanding of themselves and their children with disabilities....
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    Accountability Office, 2005; Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2008). Because of the increasing prevalence