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Everyday interpersonal conflicts of middle-aged women
— an examination of strategies and their contextual correlates | | Author(s) | Patricia Flynn Weitzman, Eben A Weitzman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 52, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 281-296 |
| Keywords | Middle aged ; Older women ; Personal relationships ; Stress ; Emotions ; Cognitive processes ; Reasoning ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Everyday problem solving within the interpersonal domain has been identified as propelling cognitive development in adulthood, and may be particularly relevant to women's development. The authors examined strategies middle-aged women used for real-life interpersonal problems, and contextual variables associated with strategy use. In contrast to research with younger and older women, in which lower level strategies were favoured, strategy used here was fairly evenly split between higher and lower levels. Also, in contrast to other research with younger and older women, participants here favoured lower-level strategies that were directive, rather than submissive. Thematic analyses showed a high degree of felt emotional distress to be associated with lower level strategy use, and attempts at controlling emotions and overcoming fundamental attribution errors in judgment to be related to higher level strategy use. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010807202 A |
| Classmark | SE: BD: DS: QNH: DL: DA: DC: 7T |
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