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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"mid life"”.
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Dancing Across Borders: Women Who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life
… heterosexual women who become lesbians in mid-life. I have conducted my research as participant observer who has this core experience in common with the other subjects. I have also included my poetry and journal extracts to track and comment on the project and the topic. The accounts from …
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Death concern and the resolution of the mid-life crisis
'Mid-life crisis' has become an increasingly popular term to describe the turmoil and changes in behaviour that many men experience during midlife (Collin, 1979). The full nature of this experience, however, remains unclear. An awareness of one’s mortality or concern over death appears to be one of …
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Health Promotion Lifestyles of Mid-life Women Who Regularly Exercise
<p>Womens mid-life is a period of dynamic growth and development, influenced personally, socially and physiologically. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the health promoting lifestyles of mid life women who regularly exercise. The Health Promotion Model (HPM) is the organizing …
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Early Mid-Life Women: A Study of Self-Reported Mid-Life Crisis Among Evangelical Women Age 34--45 and Their Likelihood to Participate in Learning Experiences
… of the total sample were having or have had a mid-life crisis. The mean age for beginning of the mid-life crisis was 39.947. The mean ending age was 42.615.
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The adoption and maintenance of physical activity for mid-life, sedentary women
… physically active provides. In Australia, many middle-aged women (45 to 59 years) are especially at risk of ill-health due to their physically inactive lifestyles. In this dissertation, I report on a mixed-method research approach that incorporated the LIFE: Live It Up (LLIU) intervention. …
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The evolution of family myths: a qualitative analysis of mid- life married men
… the nature of family myths as perceived by mid-life married men. Of particular interest was inquiry into the origin of family mythology and the transmission process of myths as perceived by men. The most pervasive themes were found around "relations with father." These themes were indicated …
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Skeletal muscle mass, function, and metabolic regulation between menopause stages in moderately active mid-life females
… training between pre-, peri and post-menopausal mid-life females. Seventy one moderately active pre-, peri, and post-menopausal females were characterised cross-sectionally accounting for age, physical activity and protein intake. While total and appendicular lean mass were comparable across …
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Negotiating constructions of success and failure: women in mid-life and formations of subject, subjectivity and identity
… of success and failure for women in mid-life in Britain in the early 21st century. It takes a discursive approach to social psychology, understanding language as social action constituting subjects and subjectivity. Data from 20 interviews, including 4 conducted with women in pairs, …
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Delayed motherhood : exploring expectations, anxieties and emotional impact of the transition to motherhood at mid-life (37+ years)
… many years of career development and settled lifestyle (Heckhausen, Wrosh, & Fleeson, 200I). 'Elderly primigravidae,' as they are referred to, are deemed 'high risk' by the medical profession (Mirowsky, 2002) therefore women may be expos cd to a 'culture of anxiety' surrounding their choice to …
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An examination of the care and career experiences of mid-life women who combine formal employment and informal caring of dependent adults
… is based on the care and career experiences of mid-life (ages 45 – 65) women engaging in paid employment alongside informal caring of dependent adults. It was carried out within the context of a growing ‘social care crisis’ in the wake of depleting social and healthcare resources and government …
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Emotional Intelligence at Mid Life: A Cross Sectional Investigation of Structural Variance, Social Correlates, and Relationship to Established Personality and Ability Taxonomies
… of reasons to expect that EI may be different at mid life than in young adulthood. Normative life experiences may lead to increases in EI, and as the array of different environments and experiences increases with age, one might expect greater individual differences in EI. Similarly, if EI is …
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Ultra-Processed Foods, Gut Microbiome, and Chronic Disease Risk: Chemical Analysis of Controlled Diets and Implications for Glucose Homeostasis in Mid-Life Adults
… (T2D), with prediabetes present in 45- 50% of mid-life adults. Ultra-processed food (UPF) are associated with T2D, cardiovascular disease, and other disease states. UPF's may adversely affect the gut microbiome, leading to chronic inflammation which can impair insulin signaling, however, …
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The Role of early-life psychological factors in the development of chronic disease: a longitudinal analysis applied to the onset of cancer, diabetes, and asthma in mid-life.
… but less is known about their effect from early life. This study is an epidemiological life-course analysis to test: (1) the hypotheses that early-life psychological factors are linked to later development of chronic disease (cancer, diabetes, and asthma) in mid-life, (2) whether such …
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Women over thirty choosing education as a solution to a problem
This study explored motivations of mid-life women over 30 years old who had returned to school. It sought to fmd whether these women returned to solve a problem arising from life events, whether viewing a problem was related to internal or external motivation, whether this perception was related to …
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Life Satisfaction among Midlife Career Changers: A Study of Military Members Transitioning to Teaching
The study explored factors related to life satisfaction for military members transitioning to teaching. Schlossberg's (1981) model of human adaptation to transition was used to articulate the career transition factors of readiness, confidence, control, perceived support, and decision independence. …
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System strategies in the management of transit systems towards the end of their life cycle
… transit authority/operator to deal with end of life cycle challenges of Rapid Transit Systems (RTS) systems. RTS systems are elaborate systems consisting of various subsystems. It is believed that one of the greatest challenges of such systems is the integration of these various sub-systems to …
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Cracker Gothic: A Memoir
… experience of returning to her small hometown in mid-life. She uses the writings of southern authors as sources for themes of travel writing, literary grotesque, pilgrimage tales, and redemption. The works of Flannery O'Conner, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Harry Crews, and William Bartram were …
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Contributors to processing speed deficit in old age: A focus on history of obesity and medical conditions
… data at three timepoints: young adulthood, late mid-life, and young-old adulthood. A statistically significant relationship between persistent obesity in young adulthood and late middle-age and processing speed in young-old adulthood was identified, but it was found to be fully mediated by …
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Never married childless women
… of never-married childless working women in mid-life, who regarded themselves as satisfied. Seven never-married women between the ages of 39 and 60 participated in this study. During individual, in-depth personal interviews which were audio-taped, the women described their perceptions and …
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Our Father Who Art in Heaven: an Exploration of Prayer Using Grounded Theory
… using prayer as a type of reassurance, the mid-life individuals (35-64) used prayer as an insulator and form of after-life insurance, while people 65 and older utilized prayer as a form of assurance. Gender was also shown to affect the prayer experience. Women used more emotional expression …
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