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Schafer, Markus H.; Shippee, Tetyana Pylypiv – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The passage of time is fundamentally experienced through people's interaction with their social worlds. Life-course scholars acknowledge the multiple aspects of time-based experience but have given little attention to age identity in a dynamic context. Drawing from a stress-process model, we expected that turbulence within people's family…
Descriptors: Family Role, Stress Variables, Self Concept, Older Adults
Hagan, Winifred B. – 1983
Past research and educational efforts in gerontological nursing have revealed that nursing care of the older person has received a low priority by practicing nurses and nursing students. To measure registered nurses' changes in knowledge about aging, nine registered nurses (mean age, 30.7 years, mean number of years nursing experience, 6.9)…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Aging (Individuals), Attitude Change, Change