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| Resilience as adaptation in older women | | Author(s) | Beth Kinsel |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 17, no 3, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 23-40 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Adjustment ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This article discusses factors that contribute to resilience in older women. Face-to-face audio taped interviews with 17 women aged 70-80 were the primary data source. Open-ended questions related to the experience of advantage and adversity across the life span. Paths to resilience were variously affected depending on developmental, social-structural, historical and individual life story influences. Among seven factors emerging as salient to resilience in the sample are the external resource of social connectedness and internal resources, including a "head-on" approach to challenge and spiritual grounding. Pivotal in the women's lives were curiosity and extending self to others. Moving forward with life following adversity and "maverick" (non-traditional) behaviour facilitated preservation of the self in these resilient women. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060913202 A |
| Classmark | BD: DR: 3DP: 7T |
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