Lifestyles and Generativity of Childless Older Women

无子女老年妇女的生活方式和生育能力

• 批准号: 8217139
• 负责人: Robert L. Rubinstein
• 金额: $ 43.91万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-15 至 2014-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8217139
• 关键词: Address; African American; Age; Aging; American; Area; Atlases; Caring; Censuses; Child; Currently Married; Data; Development; Divorce; Elderly; Elderly woman; Emotional; Ethnic group; Ethnography; European; Eye; Family; Health; Healthcare; Interview; Laws; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Life Style; Light; Literature; Maintenance; Methods; Movement; Never Married; Older Population; Only Child; Parent-Child Relations; Parents; Persons; Population; Qualitative Methods; Research; Research Project Grants; Resources; Self Concept; Services; Text; Time; Widowhood; Woman; Work; aged; base; caregiving; cohort; coping; experience; indexing; informant; middle age; older women; preference; social

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A great deal of recent scientific inquiry about the elderly has addressed relations between middle-aged children and elderly parents, and in particular issues around filial caregiving. However, around 20% of those age 65 and older have no children. The major specific aim of this proposed study is to examine the situations of childless elderly women with an eye towards issues of caregiving, generativity, and general lifestyles. Further, an examination of the background to generativity issues among this cohort would also aid in clarifying the cultural construction of the life course, the flow of lives through time, and the correlates of generativity in old age. The need for this study is suggested by the notable changes that have occurred in the social lives of both women and elders since previous cohorts. The advent of the women's movement when these women were in mid-life, general improvements in the lives and health of the aged, changes in the forms and meanings of family, access to new forms of support, and in increased sense of independence and power for many women have been some markers of these changes. The proposed study has four specific aims: 1. To examine issues concerning generativity and lifestyles of the older population of women; 2. To better understand the caregiving needs and resources of this group; 3. To compare these issues among seven different groups of childless and childed older women; and 4. To contrast these issues among two ethnic groups, European-Americans and African-Americans. Groups of childless older women to be interviewed include the never-married, currently married, widowed, divorced, and women who have survived an only child. For purposes of contrast, we will also interview women with only one child and women with four-or-more children. These groups will be divided among African Americans and European Americans. Each informant will be interviewed over three weekly sessions for a total of 630 interviews (three per person). Qualitative and ethnographic interviewing methods will be utilized; standard methods of qualitative analysis will be utilized and will include the development of an indexed text-base for analysis using Atlas.ti. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Although the parent-child relationship has been found to be especially important in late life, little is known about how childless older women view and cope with the challenges of aging (e.g., health and caregiving needs, views of generativity and self-concept) without filial support. The proposed research investigates the subjective meaning of childlessness and the needs and resources of this group. The relevance is found in making the lives of elderly childless women more accessible and their issues, problems and strengths more visible including their preferences and need for health care and caregiving services.

描述（由申请人提供）：有关老年人的最近科学询问已经解决了中年儿童与老年父母之间的关系，尤其是围绕录取护理的问题。但是，大约20％的65岁及以上的人没有孩子。这项拟议的研究的主要特定目的是检查无子女妇女的情况，他们注视着护理，兴建和一般生活方式的问题。此外，对这一队列中生成性问题的背景的检查也将有助于阐明生命过程的文化建构，流逝的生活流以及老年人的兴起相关性。自从以前的队列以来，妇女和长辈的社会生活中发生的显着变化表明了对这项研究的需求。当这些妇女处于中年时，妇女运动的出现，老年人的生活和健康，家庭形式和含义的变化，获得新形式的支持以及在许多妇女的独立意义上增加了这些变化的标志。拟议的研究具有四个具体的目的：1。研究有关妇女老年人群的生成性和生活方式的问题； 2。更好地了解该小组的护理需求和资源； 3。在七个不同的无子女和育儿的老年妇女中比较这些问题；和4。在两个族裔群体中，欧洲裔美国人和非裔美国人中的这些问题。接受采访的一群没有孩子的老年妇女包括从未结婚，已婚，丧偶，离婚，以及幸存下一个独生子的妇女。出于对比的目的，我们还将采访只有一个有四或四岁儿童的儿童和妇女的妇女。这些群体将分为非裔美国人和欧洲人。每个线人将在每周的三个课程中进行采访，共有630次访谈（每人三个）。定性和民族志访谈方法将被利用；定性分析的标准方法将被利用，并将包括使用Atlas.ti的索引文本基础的开发。公共卫生的相关性：尽管已经发现，在晚期生活中发现了亲子关系尤为重要，但对于没有儿童的老年妇女如何应对衰老的挑战（例如健康和照料需求，生成性和自我概念的观点），没有任何了解的情况下，鲜为人知。拟议的研究调查了无子女的主观含义以及该小组的需求和资源。在使老年无子女妇女的生活变得更容易获得的生活中发现了相关性，以及她们的问题，问题和优势，包括她们的偏好以及对医疗保健和照料服务的需求。

项目成果

Extending the Framework of Generativity Theory Through Research: A Qualitative Study.

通过研究扩展生成理论的框架：定性研究。

• DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnu009
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: The Gerontologist
• 作者: Rubinstein,RobertL;Girling,LauraM;deMedeiros,Kate;Brazda,Michael;Hannum,Susan
• 通讯作者: Hannum,Susan

Suffering and Generativity: Repairing Threats to Self in Old Age.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaging.2008.11.001
• 发表时间: 2009-04-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: de Medeiros, Kate

The Role of Relevancy and Social Suffering in "Generativity" Among Older Post-Soviet Women Immigrants.

相关性和社会苦难在老年后苏联女性移民的“生育力”中的作用。

• DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnt126
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: The Gerontologist
• 作者: deMedeiros,Kate;Rubinstein,Robert;Ermoshkina,Polina
• 通讯作者: Ermoshkina,Polina