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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Midlife"”.
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Silence Taboo and Midlife Women: A case study of the Midlife Women Rock Café in Waterford city
… menopause. The research examines how the Midlife Women Rock Café in Waterford city acts as a third place contributing to women’s understandings of both menopause and self. A qualitative research approach was utilised consisting of twenty semi structured interviews and participant …
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Voices of Midlife Tomboys: A Narrative Study
… voice of young girls in our current culture, and midlife tends to relax these restrictions, allowing self and voice to emerge once again. Many women in their middle years rediscover the spirited, independent, and competent identity left behind when they accepted cultural restrictions to conform to …
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Cerebrovascular dysfunction : associations with midlife risk factors
… study, cross-sectional associations between a midlife dementia risk score composed of cardiovascular risk factors and measures of structural integrity in the brain were investigated. We measured the association between two algorithm-based risk scores used to assess dementia and vascular risk …
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Identity, intimacy, and marital satisfaction in midlife marriages
… this study was to examine the structure of the midlife marriage, focusing on identity, intimacy, and marital satisfaction. The investigator sought to identify the identity issues that midlife men and women are experiencing, describe the intimacy issues they face as couples, and show if/how these …
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An Ethnography Study of HIV Positive Midlife Black Women
… The participants consisted of 22 HIV-positive midlife Black women between the ages of 45 and 60 years old who self-selected to participate in the research study; however, two of the participants declined to have their interviews included in the results. Therefore, 20 participant-encounters were …
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Midlife Suicide: Examination Through an Ecological and Interpersonal Lens
… has increased over the past decade among midlife adults in the United States. It is the fourth leading cause of death among persons aged 35–54 years and the eighth leading cause of death among persons aged 55–64 years. The primary purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study is to …
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Health disparities, environmental toxicants, and midlife women’s health outcomes
… that can affect reproductive capabilities. Midlife, which is the period between the ages of 40-59, presents major gaps in reproductive and menopausal research and thus understanding health disparities and exposures to environmental toxicants in this population is of great public health …
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Women Recreating their Lives: Challenges and Resilience in Midlife
This research explores how midlife women found the strength and resilience that enabled them to rebound and grow as they negotiated significant life challenges in their marriage, and with their children, parents, careers, and health. Using a family resilience framework grounded in systems theory …
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The Negotiation of Midlife: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Ageing
… experience of ageing with a particular focus on midlife. I argue that midlife signifies an important phase of transition in the life course which is often characterised by essential changes in personal circumstances. Although many of these changes are anticipated their impact can still come as a …
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African American couples at midlife: life course and gender perspectives
… was designed to investigate the experiences of midlife and relationships of 20 African American individuals, aged 35-52, in 10 couples, married or cohabiting for 3-30 years. Basic to this study was the assumption that men and women are capable of and competent at intimate relationships. Guided …
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A midlife psycho-educational intervention based upon Jungian typological foundations
… of most problems encountered in navigating the midlife journey stem from inadequate development and/or inappropriate use of one's inferior ego function, yet the use of typology has not been directly applied as a midlife transition technique. Implicit in Jungian literature, when one is familiar …
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Midlife women's lived experience : their patterns of health, leisure and enjoyment
This study was prompted by the negative images of midlife women portrayed in the literature and popular culture. Apart from a few accounts of extraordinary feats, which counter the generalisations about midlife women, for example, a 76 year old grandmother going sky-diving, there is very little …
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The experience of completing a midlife career change: a phenomenological study
… dissertation is the experience of completing a midlife career change. This experience is reported by many as they reach the ages between thirty-five and fifty-five. All research was conducted in response to the question: What is the meaning of the experience of completing a midlife career …
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Midlife development and disability onset in a family context: a qualitative integration
Much research on disability has focused on individuals with congenital anomalies and birth defects, and has emphasized the medical aspects of various impairments. Investigations have centered on the treatment and management of problematic physical symptoms with little attention given to the meaning …
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Betwixt and between: a reflexive thematic analysis of experiences of change in midlife
… shows that how people navigate the challenges of midlife can profoundly shape the course of later life. Yet despite burgeoning research in the area, it is acknowledged that “strikingly little is known about development in midlife” (Infurna et al., 2020) and much of what we do know comes from …
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The Meaning of Health among Midlife Russian-Speaking Women in the United States
… sought to explore the meaning of health among midlife Russian-speaking women from the Former Soviet Union. A hermeneutic, phenomenologic, descriptive and interpretive design following the Utrecht School was used. The setting was in an ethnic community in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The sample …
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Preferred Symbol, Archetypal Stages, and Life Satisfaction of the Spritiual Woman at Midlife
… by which to understand the spiritual woman at midlife in terms of signposts along the way of spiritual development and the process of individuation. The study was Jungian-based and used the following projective instruments: the archetypal stages of the great round (Kellogg, 1978); the Mandala …
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‘Doing’ separation in contemporary Ireland: the experiences of women who separate in midlife
… of fourteen Irish women who separated in midlife. The rationale for choosing to study this age group of women is because they are the first generation of Irish women to publically separate in midlife in such large numbers. All of them entered marriage at a time when divorce was not …
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Whatever happened to baby Mei? A phenomenological study of adoption appraisal in midlife
Although there is now accumulating evidence on the experiences and outcomes for internationally adopted adults, and recent findings suggest an association between outcomes and individuals’ views of their own adoption, there has been little systematic examination of the adoption appraisal process …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Health Beliefs Among Midlife Filipino American Women in California
… of four Filipino American women who were in midlife through in-depth one-on-one interviews regarding cardiovascular diseases and in utilizing health care to prevent, diagnose, or treat those diseases. The second purpose was to conceptualize potential links between the health beliefs of those …
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