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Spousal relationships in dementia care
… used to measure relationship quality between a spousal couple when one of the couple has a diagnosis of dementia. Paper two presents the construction and validation of a new measure: The Birmingham Relationship Continuity Measure (BRCM). The final paper of this volume is an executive summary of …
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Spousal Caregivers: Caregiving in Their Own Words
… qualitative study included interviews with six spousal caregivers in one community to examine the narratives produced by spouses actively caring for their partners with dementia. The spousal caregivers were interviewed multiple times over approximately 12 months. Their narratives were analyzed …
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Exploration of spousal carers' lived experience of loss
… phenomenological study was to explore spousal carers' lived experience of loss. Ten spousal carers of partners with Multiple Sclerosis participated in this study. In-depth, unstructured interviews were conducted and transcribed verbatim. The data were analysed using a modified form of …
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Spousal rape : an integration approach to pastoral counselling
… of need. This is especially true with regard to spousal rape. The lack of supportive interventions exacerbates the posttraumatic stress women experience due to rape. In order to address this concern, this research seeks to identify and evaluate, by means of questionnaires, various therapy methods …
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Perceptions and attributions of child, spousal, and elder abuse.
… abuse history and perceptions of child, spousal, and elder abuse by varying the respondent, victim, and perpetrator genders. Physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect were investigated. Perceptions of abusiveness, seriousness, harm, and responsibility were examined, along with the …
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Psychological empowerment of female victims of spousal abuse through philophonetics
Spousal abuse is a public health concern and is common in all races and ethnicities. It may take on various forms such as; physical beating, verbal/ emotional/ psychological abuse, sexual abuse, or financial abuse. Women often remain in abusive relationships for financial security, fear of further …
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Strengths and weaknesses of the spousal relationship following a stroke
The purpose of this study was to investigate the strengths/weaknesses of the stroke spouse/stroke caregiver relationship in relation to the cerebral hemisphere affected by the stroke, the gender of the stroke spouse, the functional capacity of the stroke spouse, the length of time since the stroke, …
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Memory appraisals by older people : associated factors and spousal relationship quality
This portfolio thesis has three parts:Part one is a systematic review of the factors associated with awareness of memory function in older people without dementia. Recent research suggests that subjective memory complaints may precede objective cognitive decline in older people, but whilst several …
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Women's Response to Spousal Unemployment: Economic, Labor Force, and Family Constraints
<p>Using data collected from 29 interviews with the wives of steelworkers who were forced into unemployment, I explore the conditions and factors that shape women's choices in response to their husbands' job loss. Access to a unique and under-studied sample of women married to unemployed …
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Adaptation to late-life spousal loss: An examination of longitudinal trajectories
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The Gendered Health Effect of Intimate Task Performance on Spousal Caregivers
Caregiving research on heterosexual couples suggests that though husbands and wives generally perform the same care tasks for their spouses, wives report higher levels of mental stress, depression, and general frustration (Swinkles et al., 2017; Polenick and DePasquale 2019). Caregiving literature …
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Modeling Spousal Family Purchase Decision Behavior: A Dynamic Simultaneous Equations Approach
… represented an initial effort to model spousal family purchase decision behavior in terms of spousal coercion propensity. Two major issues concerning how spouses resolve conflicts were investigated: (1) What are the spousal behavioral interactions in household conflict resolution …
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Spousal relationship and parental behavior as related to girl's intelligence and motivation
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Spousal relationship and parental behavior as related to girl's intelligence and motivation
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The cognitively-impaired institutionalized elderly: spousal perceptions and expectations of nursing care
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the spouses' perceptions and expectations of nursing care delivered to their cognitively-impaired institutionalized elderly mate. Data were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire, based on the concept of caring, …
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Marital Satisfaction and Intimacy: Gender Role Attitudes and Spousal Support in Botswana
… relational variables, gender role attitudes and spousal support and two demographic variables, age and gender in predicting the variance in marital satisfaction and intimacy, after controlling for number of children, religion, occupation, education, length of marriage and household income among …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between Nurturing Spousal Friendship and Marital Quality
… present study evaluated the relationship between spousal friendship and marital quality. It made a gender analysis as well.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the Caring Relationship Inventory, and a demographic questionnaire were mailed to 500 couples (1000 married individuals). …
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