Sampling in Qualitative Research: Rationale, Issues, and Methods.

abstract：:Accounts of community reaction to persons with HIV/AIDS and their families typically focus only on negative reactions stemming from stigmatization with little acknowledgement of variation over time and across settings. To usefully guide local interventions, a broader view is needed that also encompasses attitudes and ...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Knodel J,Williams N,Kim SK,Puch S,Saengtienchai C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to examine the roles of tenacious goal pursuit (TGP) and flexible goal adjustment (FGA), mediated by positive self-perceptions of aging (PSA), in Chinese older couples' life satisfaction. Using a cross-sectional design, 245 Chinese older couples (age range: 55-93 years) completed measures of TGP, FGA, PSA, an...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Zhang J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults (aged 55+) comprise a rapidly growing population both in number and racial-ethnic diversity. In recent years, substance misuse prevalence among older adults has increased and is expected to continue rising, highlighting the need to understand risk and protective factors in this population. Using nationall...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Reyes L,Treitler P,Peterson NA

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We analyze correlates of the direction and magnitude of changes in out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for dental care by older Americans over a recent 4-year period. METHODS:We analyzed data from the 2006 and 2008 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We estimated multinomial logistic models of the direction a...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Manski RJ,Moeller JF,Chen H,Hyde JS,Pepper JV,St Clair PA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resilience is a term that refers to a person's ability to successfully adapt to adversity. Resilience research has been relatively limited with older adults, particularly with older American Indians. Also, none of the resilience measures have been validated in older American Indians. This study's objective was to asse...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Goins RT,Gregg JJ,Fiske A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first goal of this study is to see if social relationships in the church influence feelings of gratitude toward God. The second goal is to assess the impact of race and ethnicity on this relationship. The data support the following hypotheses: (1) older people who go to church more often tend to receive more spiri...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Krause N

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Essential tremor (ET) is a common neurological disorder associated with functional impairment. Emerging evidence shows that some ET caregivers experience burden, but the unique interpersonal aspects of caregiving in the context of ET have not been fully examined. RESEARCH DESIGN:Open-ended questions were ...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Hickman R,Zdrodowska MA,Kellner S,Cersonsky TEK,Trujillo Diaz D,Louis ED,Monin JK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constriction of social and personal activities is one of the most frequently noted consequences of caring for a frail elder. This study analyzed the correlates of perceived limitations in social activities using data from a national sample of the frail elderly and their caregivers. Two research issues were addressed: ...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Miller B,Montgomery A

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guided by stress process and life course theory, the purpose of this study was to examine adult child caregivers' psychological and physical health trajectories and how their multiple family (caregiving, marital, and parenting) and nonfamily (employment) roles contributed to these health outcomes over time. Seven wave...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Barnett AE

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of life (QoL) in the face of declining health, mobility, and social losses is a central issue for older adults. Our study examined changes in QoL over time for older adults residing in independent senior housing within continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) and estimated how residents' social engagemen...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Roberts AR,Adams KB

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the identification of multiple latent trajectories of pain intensity, and it examines how religiousness is related to different classes of pain trajectory. Participants were 720 community-dwelling older adults who were interviewed at four time points over a 3-year period. Overall, intensity of pa...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Sun F,Park NS,Wardian J,Lee BS,Roff LL,Klemmack DL,Parker MW,Koenig HG,Sawyer PL,Allman RM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current literature on parent care, the assertion is made that modern women at some time in their lives may expect to be sandwiched between responsibilities to old parents and their other commitments. This article presents the distribution for a random sample of 163 women aged 40 to 69 with respect to combinatio...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Rosenthal CJ,Matthews SH,Marshall VW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age stereotypes in the context of work take effect in management decisions and leadership behavior. We aimed to comprehensively measure main dimensions of work-related age stereotypes, namely, performance, adaptability, reliability, and warmth, and explored how they vary across age groups, thereby testing predictions ...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Kleissner V,Jahn G

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of religiousness on the trajectories of difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs) in community-dwelling older adults over a three-year period. Seven waves of data from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging wer...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Park NS,Klemmack DL,Roff LL,Parker MW,Koenig HG,Sawyer P,Allman RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institutes of Health human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Aging Working Group identified spirituality as a research emphasis. This qualitative study examines the importance of religion and spirituality among 30 HIV-positive older adults. Using modified grounded theory, adults 50+ were recruited in Ontar...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Emlet CA,Harris L,Pierpaoli CM,Furlotte C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Working long hours may be related to obesity in older adults. No studies have focused on older workers and long work hours, although the risk of obesity is high among this population group. This study is the first attempt to investigate the relationship between obesity and the older workforce. Panel data from the Heal...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Mercan MA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using data from the baseline wave of the China Family Panel Studies, we applied three-level random-intercept logistic regression models to investigate how the child gender gap in intergenerational support differed between one- and multi-child families in China based on 16,201 parent-child dyads. The results showed tha...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Chen J,Jordan LP

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pursuit of personal goals has been linked to general psychological well-being; however, less is known about the association with depression in later adulthood when individuals are contending with age-related changes in health and social relationships. We explored the connection between both health- and social rela...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Bolkan C,Hooker K,Coehlo D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Volunteering among older adults has received increasing attention from researchers, policy makers, and associations. However, there remains a lack of knowledge in how volunteering is impacted by other activities in the lives of older adults. In order to understand activity engagement in later life, insights int...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Dury S,De Donder L,De Witte N,Brosens D,Smetcoren AS,Van Regenmortel S,Verté D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a new disability measure applicable to both the near elderly and elderly population, we track respondents aged 51-61 in 1992 from the Health and Retirement Study and account for their status over 20 years. We demonstrate that to screen in as disabled and to screen out as nondisabled require different analytic st...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Rupp K,Dushi I

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes recent trends in the total institutionalization rates among unmarried Black and White populations, by sex. In addition, an analysis is provided that evaluates the individual attributes associated with the probability of institutionalization for these same groups in 1980. To accomplish these goal...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Burr JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large literature suggests that active social participation contributes to the well-being of older people. Japan provides a compelling context to test this hypothesis due to its rapidly growing elderly population and the phenomenal health of the population. Using the Nihon University Japanese Longitudinal Study of Ag...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Minagawa Y,Saito Y

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The factorial survey (FS) method is increasingly used in the social sciences. It is particularly suitable for studying decision situations that are difficult to assess empirically. This article evaluates whether the FS method is suitable for studying decisions in gerontological research. METHODS:The present...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Teti A,Gross C,Knoll N,Blüher S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although education is consistently related to better cognitive performance, findings on the relationship between education and age-associated cognitive change have been conflicting. Using measures of multiple cognitive domains from four waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old study, a representative s...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Alley D,Suthers K,Crimmins E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women generally receive lower pensions than men, and research on gender and pensions has identified a number of factors underlying this pattern. The present article examines one factor that has largely gone unnoticed-synchronized retirement. In most married couples, the husband is older than his wife, yet many couples...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Gustafson P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study investigated the dynamic relationship between multidimensional intergenerational instrumental support and health over time. This approach is of theoretical, methodological, and practical significance in gerontological research. METHOD:Data came from The Well-Being of Older People in Anhui Provinc...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Mao W,Chi I,Wu S

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consistent with the weathering hypothesis, many studies have captured racial/ethnic disparities in average functional health trajectories. The same mechanisms of social inequality that contribute to worse average health among minority adults may also contribute to greater fluctuations in their physical function at upp...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Lin J,Kelley-Moore J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents an integrative model of early retirement using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The model extends prior work by incorporating work-family conflict to capture the interaction between the work and family domains and by assuming proximal and distal predictors of early retirement. More preci...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Kubicek B,Korunka C,Hoonakker P,Raymo JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the authors focused on older adults in Beijing with three objectives: to examine gender differences in functional health and mortality at the end of a five-year study period, controlling for initial functional health; to determine the extent to which these differences were a function of exposure versus ...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Kaneda T,Zimmer Z,Fang X,Tang Z

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This phenomenological study involved focus groups with church-affiliated, African American women and men ( N = 50; ages 50 and older) in southeast Michigan to determine their attitudes and expectations around formal mental health care. Data analysis employed a constant comparative approach and yielded themes related t...

journal_title：Research on aging

authors： Wharton T,Watkins DC,Mitchell J,Kales H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00