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Midlife myths and realities — women reflect on their experiences
Author(s)	Lynn C Howell, Amy Beth
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 14, no 3/4, 2002
Pages	pp 189-204
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Older women ; Middle aged ; Mental health [elderly] ; Life satisfaction ; Attitude ; United States of America.
Annotation	This was one in a series of studies whose goal was creation of a rich, deep description of women's midlife psychological development. All studies in the series used qualitative approaches of unstructured focus groups, followed by grounded theory data analysis. The participants were a culturally and ethnically mixed group of 11 women aged 40-60, who met in Manhattan and discussed their lives, feelings, behaviours and perspectives during this phase. Data analysis led to a three-part developmental model describing women's midlife experiences. Data from this group of participants offered particularly rich descriptions of how they reacted to social stereotypes about midlife. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030128216 A
Classmark	BD: SE: D: F:5HH: DP: 7T
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