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| A phenomenological study of romantic love for women in late life | | Author(s) | Teresa J Moore, Joanni L Sailor |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 30, no 2, March-April 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, March-April 2018 |
| Pages | pp 111-126 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Personal relationships ; Older women ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Romantic love in late life is often beneficial, though not without challenges. Financial concerns and objections of adult children can interfere with a late-life individual's decision to commit to a romantic relationship. In this study, the experience of romantic love for women who enter committed relationships in later life was examined. Fourteen women aged 65 to 84 who had lived the experience of romantic love in late life were interviewed. By using Moustakas's qualitative Transcendental Phenomenological method, several themes emerged to provide a description of the phenomena. These themes included openness to experience, attraction, commitment, adjournment, and generativity. According to this study's findings, women in late life who form committed romantic love relationships negate the physical and emotional effects of loneliness brought about by bereavement or single status in late life. In addition, this study found these women were attracted to partners to fulfil their needs for love, esteem, spiritual connection and self-actualisation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525227 A |
| Classmark | DS: BD: 3DP: 7T |
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