Search results
Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today’s society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations.. Each section describes a bridge between the theoretical aspects and practical applications ...
27 kwi 2017 · American culture’s largely negative views of aging generate anxiety for many adults (Abramson & Silverstein, 2006).Concerns about aging, however, may be more pronounced for women than men—an assertion derived from a feminist perspective on age relations (Calasanti, 2003).This perspective highlights the role of age in social organization, particularly in distributing power across age groups ...
23 mar 2021 · For example, in a large prospective study of 9,986 healthy British adults from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging who were followed over an average of 11 years (and assessed repeatedly up to six times), higher psychological well-being was associated with higher physical activity over follow-up after adjusting for several potential ...
Psychological theories of ageing encompass mental health and emotional well-being as well as changes in these states, at individual as well as interpersonal levels, associated with increasing age. ‘The psychology of ageing’ reviews different ways of studying changes in functioning: cross-sectional, longitudinal, and sequential study designs ...
1 paź 2007 · Extract. Age Matters: Realigning Feminist Thinking, edited by Toni M. Calasanti and Kathleen F. Slevin. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, New York, NY, 2006, 353 pp., $34.95 (paper). Older Widows and the Life Course: Multiple Narratives of Hidden Lives, by Pat Chambers. Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington, VT, 2005, 266 pp., $99.95 (cloth ...
Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days. Free shipping worldwide -. This book brings together a diversity of perspectives on the psychology of ageing. Exploring theoretical, conceptual, empirical and practical viewpoints on the topic, the editors have brought together a set of experts to offer insight into a range of contemporary issues of ageing.
1 sty 2022 · Material, discursive, and intrapsychic factors interact to modulate women’s construction and experience of menopause and the aging body (Ussher 2006). At a material level, menopause is defined as the permanent cessation of menstruation, resulting in infertility, as a result of endocrinological changes, occurring in women aged 45–55 (average ...
