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Quilting as a generative activity — studying those who make quilts for wounded service members
Author(s)	Cheryl Cheek, Robin G Yaure
Journal title	Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 1, 2017
Publisher	Taylor and Francis, 2017
Pages	pp 39-50
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Quilt making ; Armed Forces ; Iraq ; Afganistan ; Stress ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America.
Annotation	A qualitative study of 24 quilters examined their experiences of creating and delivering quilts to wounded service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Using Erikson's (1963) perspective on generativity and Baumeister and Vohs's (2002) theory of motivation as theoretical frameworks, along with McCracken's (1988) five-step analysis model, the authors looked at the part motivation played in this process. The results were that respondents wanted to supply quilts in response to their own family histories of military involvement, to support friends or acquaintances with family in the military, and to make a difference to those who seemed young and badly wounded. Some respondents described being affected by the reactions of quilt recipients, and of healing from their own traumas and grief. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-170630215 A
Classmark	BD: HFH: VMM: 7GF: 7FK: QNH: 3DP: 7T
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