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D A Chiriboga

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PubMed1979

The empty nest process in mid-life men and women.

A combined clinical and field investigation studied the effects of the empty-nest phase of parenthood on morale and activity level. Data from the clinical study were obtained from two psychotherapy groups conducted for mid-life women, and the field data were obtained from a 5-yr longitudinal study of life stages. Results indicated an increase in morale during the unfolding of the empty nest and suggested that the so-called "crisis" of the empty nest may be more myth than reality.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Dimensions of adult self-concept.

A 70-item adjective checklist was administered to four groups of adults as part of a longitudinal study of psychosocial change during four normative transitions. Data gathered at two times with a five-year interval were cluster analyzed separately. Six clusters were extracted from the first set of data, 7 from the second, with minor changes in dimensionality: all 6 original clusters had counterparts in the second analysis, but some dimensional change was seen in all but one cluster. The argument is made that although such dimensional change is often treated as error or completely ignored in longitudinal research, this inattention can lead to serious problems in the interpretation of results.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Evaluated time: a life course perspective.

Evaluated time is a dimension of time perspective which has received minimal attention from researchers; it subsumes those constructs dealing with the affective tone, or feelings, placed upon different points of the life cycle. Using data from a cross-sectional study of 216 men and women aged 16 to 67, a variety of approaches to the study of evaluated time were examined. Evaluations were found to differ by the respondents' stage of life and by sex, with older respondents and women generally being more optimistic in their perceptions of later life. For example, while all the younger respondents viewed old age more negatively than other periods, older respondents drew a distinction between the young old and the old old. The former period was protrayed as a time of continued satisfaction.

Adaptation, Psychological↗