Sharon King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Nursing at Michigan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kinship Care in Rural Georgia Communities
In 2005, the Georgia Division of Aging Services initiated the Kinship Care Program to provide services to grandparents raising grandchildren throughout Georgia's 12 regional Area Agencies on Aging. Many of the grandparents who receive Division of Aging Services services reside in rural communities. To assess the impact of the program among rural grandparents and learn more about their needs, an evaluation study was conducted with 30 grandparents …
Values and the Use of Community Services
Objective factors have traditionally been used to study service use. Difficulty in explaining variability in service use has resulted in suggestions that thought be given to subjective factors. Difficulty in isolating subjective factors led to this study of the types of values that influence the use of community services by caregivers of persons with dementing disease. Persons who care for family members who have dementing diseases face an arduou…
Loss and Grief among Family Caregivers of Relatives with Dementia
This study describes family caregiver perceptions of the experience of loss and grief as it occurs prior to and following the death of a relative with dementia. A content analysis was conducted of responses to open-ended questions by a sample of 82 primary caregivers participating in a longitudinal study who had experienced the death of their relative with dementia. Six themes were identified: loss of person and relationship, loss of hope, predea…
The caregiver reaction assessment (CRA) for caregivers to persons with chronic physical and mental impairments
The development and testing of a multidimensional instrument to assess the reactions of family members caring for elderly persons with physical impairments, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer is reported. Forty items were administered to a sample of 377 caregivers of persons with physical impairments and Alzheimer's disease. Five dimensions of caregivers' reactions were identified through exploratory factor analysis. Using confirmatory factor analys…
Fear of Success and Sex-Role
The relationship between fear of success and sex-role was investigated in college males and females. While no sex differences were found, 44 men and 83 women classified as masculine sex-typed had lower fear of success scores than subjects (35 and 8) classified as feminine sex-typed or undifferentiated. Significant negative correlations for men and women (—.34 and —.40) were found between scores on the Bem masculine subscale and on fear of success…
Kinship Care in Rural Georgia Communities
In 2005, the Georgia Division of Aging Services initiated the Kinship Care Program to provide services to grandparents raising grandchildren throughout Georgia's 12 regional Area Agencies on Aging. Many of the grandparents who receive Division of Aging Services services reside in rural communities. To assess the impact of the program among rural grandparents and learn more about their needs, an evaluation study was conducted with 30 grandparents …
Loss and Grief among Family Caregivers of Relatives with Dementia
This study describes family caregiver perceptions of the experience of loss and grief as it occurs prior to and following the death of a relative with dementia. A content analysis was conducted of responses to open-ended questions by a sample of 82 primary caregivers participating in a longitudinal study who had experienced the death of their relative with dementia. Six themes were identified: loss of person and relationship, loss of hope, predea…
Fear of Success and Sex-Role
The relationship between fear of success and sex-role was investigated in college males and females. While no sex differences were found, 44 men and 83 women classified as masculine sex-typed had lower fear of success scores than subjects (35 and 8) classified as feminine sex-typed or undifferentiated. Significant negative correlations for men and women (—.34 and —.40) were found between scores on the Bem masculine subscale and on fear of success…
The caregiver reaction assessment (CRA) for caregivers to persons with chronic physical and mental impairments
The development and testing of a multidimensional instrument to assess the reactions of family members caring for elderly persons with physical impairments, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer is reported. Forty items were administered to a sample of 377 caregivers of persons with physical impairments and Alzheimer's disease. Five dimensions of caregivers' reactions were identified through exploratory factor analysis. Using confirmatory factor analys…
Loss and Grief among Family Caregivers of Relatives with Dementia
This study describes family caregiver perceptions of the experience of loss and grief as it occurs prior to and following the death of a relative with dementia. A content analysis was conducted of responses to open-ended questions by a sample of 82 primary caregivers participating in a longitudinal study who had experienced the death of their relative with dementia. Six themes were identified: loss of person and relationship, loss of hope, predea…
Values and the Use of Community Services
Objective factors have traditionally been used to study service use. Difficulty in explaining variability in service use has resulted in suggestions that thought be given to subjective factors. Difficulty in isolating subjective factors led to this study of the types of values that influence the use of community services by caregivers of persons with dementing disease. Persons who care for family members who have dementing diseases face an arduou…
Kinship Care in Rural Georgia Communities
In 2005, the Georgia Division of Aging Services initiated the Kinship Care Program to provide services to grandparents raising grandchildren throughout Georgia's 12 regional Area Agencies on Aging. Many of the grandparents who receive Division of Aging Services services reside in rural communities. To assess the impact of the program among rural grandparents and learn more about their needs, an evaluation study was conducted with 30 grandparents …
Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Disease (3 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Dementia (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Family caregivers (2 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (2 works)