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  • 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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    which goal domains people focus on for optimizing successful outcomes. For example, if older adults

  • Aging in place : a contemporary social phenomenon

    Creator:
    Lee, Megan
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    Most aging individuals prefer to remain in a self-determined home environment, and generally aging adults want to remain in the same home or same community. The benefits of remaining in a self-determined private home environment while aging have been established. Because individuals present a diversity of needs, it takes interdisciplinary...
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    Older Women Aging in Place in Oregon ………………………………………………… 113 Abstract …………………………………………………………………….114

  • Dynamic linkages of personality and health : the effect of traits and states in predicting health-goal progress

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    Choun, Soyoung
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    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,...
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    as people move from mid-life to later life (Hooker, 1992). For older adults in particular, the

  • Perceived food autonomy : measurement and relationships with food satisfaction among assisted living residents

    Creator:
    Jambi, Hanan A.
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    The purpose of this exploratory study was to develop an instrument to measure perceived food autonomy (PFA) among cognitively alert residents in state licensed Assisted Living (AL) facilities, and to investigate the influence of PFA on food satisfaction, while controlling for functional (physical, social, and psychological) status, general health, and...
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Nutrition and Food Management presented on September 17, 2003