Gretty Mirdal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5815783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gretty Mirdal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gretty |
| FAMILY NAME | Mirdal |
| SIGNATURE | MIRDAL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8309-8685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Growing old in exile - a longitudinal study of migrant women from Turkey
Some studies on migrants and ageing focus on the question of return; others focus on how migrants, who grow old in their countries of destination, ‘age in place’, including whether they turn to their children or to public host country provisions for care and support. However, the issues of return and of ageing in place may both hold significance in individual migrants’ lives. To investigate the changing expectations of old age throughout the life…
Mevlana Jalāl-ad-Dīn Rumi and Mindfulness
Stress and Distress in Migration
Based on qualitative interviews with a group of immigrant women, “Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark” was published in this journal in 1984. Twenty years later, the same group was contacted and reinterviewed with the purpose of investigating the changes that had taken place in actual living conditions and subjective perception of well-being. Although the material situation of the women had markedl…
Changing Idioms of Shame
The present article is based on interviews conducted in 1980-1 with 75 Turkish women in Denmark, and re-interviews of the same women by the same interviewers in 2000-1. The aim of the original interviews was to collect the women's accounts of their immigration, and to study their subjective evaluation of their physical, psychological and social situation at the time. Twenty years later, 85 percent of the sample could be located and 61 percent wer…
Psykosomatik; Kroppens Och Själens Dialog
Asthma and menstruation
The aim of this study was to investigate a possible interrelation between bronchial hyperreactivity and psychological hyperreactivity. In order to record changes in both bronchial and psychological reactions throughout the menstrual cycle, 10 women outpatients with moderate asthma were followed up for six months, and their physical and psychological status as well as their reactions to life‐events and environmental influences were assessed throug…
The Interpreter in Cross‐Cultural Therapy
Stress and Distress in Migration
This article examines the stressors and the stresses of a sample group of 72 Turkish female immigrants to Denmark. From data collected through interviews, the author discusses some of the conditions in the women's lives which they themselves considered stress provoking plus their reactions to these conditions
Stress and Distress in Migration
G. M. Mirdal, Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 984-1003
Growing old in exile - a longitudinal study of migrant women from Turkey
Some studies on migrants and ageing focus on the question of return; others focus on how migrants, who grow old in their countries of destination, ‘age in place’, including whether they turn to their children or to public host country provisions for care and support. However, the issues of return and of ageing in place may both hold significance in individual migrants’ lives. To investigate the changing expectations of old age throughout the life…
Stress and Distress in Migration
G. M. Mirdal, Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 984-1003
Stress and Distress in Migration
Based on qualitative interviews with a group of immigrant women, “Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark” was published in this journal in 1984. Twenty years later, the same group was contacted and reinterviewed with the purpose of investigating the changes that had taken place in actual living conditions and subjective perception of well-being. Although the material situation of the women had markedl…
Changing Idioms of Shame
The present article is based on interviews conducted in 1980-1 with 75 Turkish women in Denmark, and re-interviews of the same women by the same interviewers in 2000-1. The aim of the original interviews was to collect the women's accounts of their immigration, and to study their subjective evaluation of their physical, psychological and social situation at the time. Twenty years later, 85 percent of the sample could be located and 61 percent wer…
Stress and Distress in Migration
This article examines the stressors and the stresses of a sample group of 72 Turkish female immigrants to Denmark. From data collected through interviews, the author discusses some of the conditions in the women's lives which they themselves considered stress provoking plus their reactions to these conditions
Stress and Distress in Migration
This article examines the stressors and the stresses of a sample group of 72 Turkish female immigrants to Denmark. From data collected through interviews, the author discusses some of the conditions in the women's lives which they themselves considered stress provoking plus their reactions to these conditions
Stress and Distress in Migration
G. M. Mirdal, Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark, The International Migration Review, Vol. 18, No. 4, Special Issue: Women in Migration (Winter, 1984), pp. 984-1003
The Interpreter in Cross‐Cultural Therapy
Asthma and menstruation
The aim of this study was to investigate a possible interrelation between bronchial hyperreactivity and psychological hyperreactivity. In order to record changes in both bronchial and psychological reactions throughout the menstrual cycle, 10 women outpatients with moderate asthma were followed up for six months, and their physical and psychological status as well as their reactions to life‐events and environmental influences were assessed throug…
Psykosomatik; Kroppens Och Själens Dialog
Stress and Distress in Migration
Based on qualitative interviews with a group of immigrant women, “Stress and Distress in Migration: Problems and Resources of Turkish Women in Denmark” was published in this journal in 1984. Twenty years later, the same group was contacted and reinterviewed with the purpose of investigating the changes that had taken place in actual living conditions and subjective perception of well-being. Although the material situation of the women had markedl…
Changing Idioms of Shame
The present article is based on interviews conducted in 1980-1 with 75 Turkish women in Denmark, and re-interviews of the same women by the same interviewers in 2000-1. The aim of the original interviews was to collect the women's accounts of their immigration, and to study their subjective evaluation of their physical, psychological and social situation at the time. Twenty years later, 85 percent of the sample could be located and 61 percent wer…
Mevlana Jalāl-ad-Dīn Rumi and Mindfulness
Growing old in exile - a longitudinal study of migrant women from Turkey
Some studies on migrants and ageing focus on the question of return; others focus on how migrants, who grow old in their countries of destination, ‘age in place’, including whether they turn to their children or to public host country provisions for care and support. However, the issues of return and of ageing in place may both hold significance in individual migrants’ lives. To investigate the changing expectations of old age throughout the life…
Psychology (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Turkish (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Distress (3 works) · Economics (3 works)