Creating the Self: Exploring the Life Journey of Late-Midlife Women |
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Authors: | Carol M. Wiggs |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Nursing, The University of Texas Medical Branch , Galveston, TXcmwiggs@utmb.edu |
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Abstract: | Studies on aging reflect the losses inherent in the aging process. How the aging process is viewed, either as a loss or as a natural process of living, may affect the adaptation by late-midlife women to life changes. Self-transcendence is a means of broadening one's perspective of the inner being. This article explores the meaning of life transitions, the role of life-course development, self-transcendence, and creativity in the evolution of the inner being as women age. |
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Keywords: | late midlife women aging self-transcendence |
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