Resilient Widowers

Older Men Speak for Themselves

Alinde Moore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

2001
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-1486-0 (ISBN)

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Based on the authors' qualitative study of a diverse group of 51 widowers, this book sets widowhood within the context of life experience. It identifies characteristics and patterns of behavior that contribute to widower's success, as well as lack of success, in adjusting satisfactorily to their circumstances.

"This is a most impressive work on a much needed and neglected area of older men who lost their spouses. Moore and Stratton listened to what these men had to say and presented us with such a rich mosaic of feelings, experiences, and hypotheses for future research."
- Leonard Poon, PhD, Dr Phil hc
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Faculty of Gerontology
Director, University of Georgia Gerontology Center

Based on the authors' intensive qualitative study of a diverse group of 51 widowers, this unique book sets widowhood within the context of life experience. It identifies characteristics and patterns of behavior that contribute to widower's success, as well as lack of success, in adjusting satisfactorily to their circumstances.

Alinde Moore is chair and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Ashland University, where she has taught since 1985. She has chaired the department since 1989. She earned her MS at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her doctoral dissertation involved a 5-year qualitative study of the coping skills of poor elderly women trying to live as independently as possible in their own homes. In Ashland, Ohio, she helped found the local hospice, served on the local hospice board for eight years, and served on the state hospice board for three years. She continues to help train hospice volunteers.

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Studying Resilience in Widowers
Models of Resilience
What Was Lost: Wives and Marriages
Illness and Death of Wife
Caregiving and Communication
Saying Good-bye
Grief and Adjustment
Living Alone
Remarriage
Life Values Carried Forward
Adult Children and Other Social Support
Cohorts and the Future

Appenix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Interview Topics
Appendix C: Respondents and Characteristics
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2001
Zusatzinfo	bibliographical references, index
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	537 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
ISBN-10	0-8261-1486-5 / 0826114865
ISBN-13	978-0-8261-1486-0 / 9780826114860
Zustand	Neuware