| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) |
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Springer series, focus on men |
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Springer series, focus on men (Unnumbered)
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| 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 |
| 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 characterist |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Widowers -- United States -- Psychology
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Widowers -- United States -- Attitudes
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Loss (Psychology) in old age -- United States
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Resilience (Personality trait) -- United States
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Adjustment (Psychology) in old age -- United States
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Widowhood -- psychology
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Adaptation, Psychological
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Men -- psychology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Adjustment (Psychology) in old age
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Loss (Psychology) in old age
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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Widowers -- Psychology
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Witwer
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Soziale Situation
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Alter
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Subject |
United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stratton, Dorothy C.
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| LC no. |
2001049703 |
| ISBN |
9780826114761 |
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0826114768 |
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1281806560 |
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9781281806567 |
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9786611806569 |
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6611806563 |
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