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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Midlife Women"”.
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Silence Taboo and Midlife Women: A case study of the Midlife Women Rock Café in Waterford city
… McQuaide (1996:132) This study explores how women in contemporary Ireland understand, experience, and negotiate 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 …
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Examining the associations of endogenous hormones and phthalate exposure with sleep in midlife women
Poor sleep is among the adverse symptoms that women develop as they age. Midlife women who report poor sleep are at an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms, reporting a poor quality of life, and experiencing overall impaired health quality. Therefore, understanding what risk factors …
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Cognitive Health in Black and Latina Midlife Women: The Role of Sleep and Vasomotor Symptoms
Background: Women experience changes in memory during the menopause transition, with these changes tending to be more severe and persistent in Black and Hispanic women compared to White women. Women also represent two-thirds of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and Black and Hispanic women …
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Personalisation of a multimethod digital health behaviour change intervention (DHBCI) for midlife women in the UK.
… determinants of the quality of life in midlife women. Midlife for women is also a key life stage that is associated with increased health risks of developing long-term health conditions, including heart disease, dementia, and osteoporosis. With over half of the global population being …
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Influences of creativity, depression, and psychological well-being on physiological and psychological symptoms in midlife women
The present study investigated the multivariate relationships among gender role conflict, psychological reactance, and relationship beliefs. Because intimate relationships have the potential to affect lives in many ways, it is important to examine factors that contribute to successful …
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Relationship between Menstrual Status, Self Esteem, and Exercise - a Health Promotive Behavior
… relationship between self esteem and exercise in midlife women. Midlife women who are members of a Women's Center were surveyed using the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and an Exercise Questionnaire. In this sample, 55% of the midlife women identified themselves as exercisers. Statistical analysis …
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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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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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Choice, Chance, or Circumstance: A Qualitative Study of Never-Married and Once-Married Women's Marriage Beliefs in Midlife
… has often focused on middle-class career women, little is known about the life experiences of non-career path single women. This study examined the core marriage beliefs of never-married and once-married child-free, midlife women and the ways in which those beliefs have evolved over time. …
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Development and test of a causal model of midlife women's attainments, commitments and satisfactions
This study developed and tested a model of midlife women's attainments, commitments and satisfactions under differing conditions of marriage and parenthood. The model proposed that life satisfaction for women is a function of three sets of influences: (1) adult status attainments, (2) home and work …
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Social identities in physical activity promotion for sedentary women
… for populations such as young and mid-life adult women. Physical activity promotion is, thus, of great importance in modern society. In this thesis, my primary aim is to develop ways to enhance the adoption and maintenance of physical activity in young and midlife women. To do so, I have utilised …
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An assessment of body image and self-esteem among middle-aged women
Research on midlife women provided evidence of negative perceptions of and reactions to aging and its accompanying physiological and emotional changes. Previous investigations revealed a plethora of information about midlife physiological changes, but provided little other information pertinent to …
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The big menopause: the word just seems wrong! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Christian women’s experience of the menopause
Background: As a universal experience for midlife women, menopause represents a marker of aging and fertility loss that the evidence suggests may have a profound biopsychosocial impact. However, menopause is not well explored in psychological research, particularly in terms of the existential and …
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Health disparities, environmental toxicants, and midlife women’s health outcomes
… of the most vulnerable populations including women from racial and minority groups and older populations. Women from urban areas of developed countries tend to carry the heaviest burdens of both occupational, environmental, and social stress thus causing cascading biological changes that can …
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Diverse women aging in America: Attitudes toward menopause and self-objectification in midlife and beyond
… the U.S., and especially common with regard to women's aging and women's physical appearance. These messages are harmful for women, who often internalize an observer's view of their bodies (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) and view menopause as a negative sign of aging (Bloch, 2002; Wilk & Kirk, …
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An Ethnography Study of HIV Positive Midlife Black Women
Black women, ages 45 and older, are disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2001, Black women comprised 11% of all older women in the United States; however, they accounted for more than 50% of AIDS cases and more than 65% of HIV cases (Winningham et al., 2004). The literature …
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The role of information and communication technologies in managing transition and sustaining women's health during their midlife years
… desire to extend and enrich existing research on women’s uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to manage relationships, and access and construct social support during their transitional midlife years. In doing so, this research addresses a gap in the literature on women’s …
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Unemployed Younger Baby Boom Women's Career Decision-Making Experiences: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
… decision-making process of unemployed American women who make up the younger cohort of the baby boom generation, namely those born between 1955 and 1964. Career decision making is a complex process involving a number of generational characteristics as well as personal and economic …
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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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Being 50: A psycho-social study of a cohort of women in contemporary society from a life course perspective
… influenced the experience of individuals now at 'midlife'. Arguably the impact of these changes has been more profound for women; specifically in the UK for those educated to be the wives, mothers and carers of industrial Britain (Newsom, 1963). Now around 50 years old this group of women are …