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Resilient widowers : older men speak for themselves / Alinde J. Moore, Dorothy C. Stratton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Alinde J.
- Series:
- Springer series, focus on men (Unnumbered)
- Springer series, focus on men
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adjustment (Psychology) in old age--United States.
- Adjustment (Psychology) in old age.
- Loss (Psychology) in old age--United States.
- Loss (Psychology) in old age.
- Resilience (Personality trait)--United States.
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Widowers--United States--Attitudes.
- Widowers.
- Widowers--United States--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub., c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""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
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Studying Resilience in Widowers; 2 Models of Resilience; 3 What Was Lost: Wives and Marriages; 4 Illness and Death of Wife; 5 Caregiving and Communication; 6 Saying Goodbye; 7 Grief and Adjustment; 8 Living Alone; 9 Remarriage; 10 Life Values Carried Forward; 11 Adult Children and Other Social Support; 12 Cohorts and the Future; Appendix A: Methodology; Appendix B: Interview Topics; Appendix C: Respondents and Characteristics; Subject Index; Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-80656-0
- 9786611806569
- 0-8261-1476-8
- OCLC:
- 476262992
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