J L Shea
Biographic Data
| ID | 8635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J L Shea |
| GIVEN NAMES | J L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shea |
| SIGNATURE | SHEA J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5875-1072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Impact of Positive Self‐Perceptions of Aging on Subjective Well‐Being through the Mediation of Psychological Resilience among Community‐Dwelling Older Adults during Covid‐19 in Taiwan
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the well‐being of older adults has been highlighted as a significant public health concern. In this study, we investigated the role of psychological resilience in mediating the relationship between positive self‐perceptions of aging (SPA) and the subjective well‐being (SWB) of community‐dwelling older adults in Taiwan during the pandemic. We collected data through face‐to‐face interviews conducted from October 2021 t…
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Menopause and Midlife Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Dressing the Older Woman in Post-Mao China
This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women's dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist media with ordinary old…
Revolutionary narratives of self-compassion among older women in post-Mao Beijing
Drawing upon interviews and participant observation conducted with hundreds of middle-aged and elderly Chinese women in rural and urban neighborhoods in Beijing Municipality between 1993 and 2012, this paper explores the emergence of revolutionary new narratives of self-compassion among older women in reform-era Beijing. Taught before 1949 that they should first and foremost serve their families and after 1949 that they should put their own indiv…
Women's midlife symptom-reporting in China
This report draws on data from the author's China Study of Midlife Women (CSMW) to test the popular notion that East Asian women have a low level of midlife symptom reporting compared with North American women. Symptom-reporting frequencies from a general population sample of 156 Chinese women of age 45-55 in China are compared with rates from published studies on midlife women in Japan, Canada, and the U.S. While the Japanese women's rates of re…
Cross-cultural comparison of women’s midlife symptom-reporting
Sexual “Liberation” and the Older Woman in Contemporary Mainland China
Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed a growing media debate concerning traditional injunctions against romance, sex, and marriage in later life. This article explores middle-aged and older Chinese women’s attitudes concerning sex in later life, the actual prevalence of sexual activity among these women, and the relation of their sexual attitudes to their sexual behavior. By comparing media discourse on the sexua…
China's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations . Martin King Whyte
Ethical Currents
When Research Ethics and Regulatory Procedures Collide
Revolutionary narratives of self-compassion among older women in post-Mao Beijing
Drawing upon interviews and participant observation conducted with hundreds of middle-aged and elderly Chinese women in rural and urban neighborhoods in Beijing Municipality between 1993 and 2012, this paper explores the emergence of revolutionary new narratives of self-compassion among older women in reform-era Beijing. Taught before 1949 that they should first and foremost serve their families and after 1949 that they should put their own indiv…
Sexual “Liberation” and the Older Woman in Contemporary Mainland China
Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed a growing media debate concerning traditional injunctions against romance, sex, and marriage in later life. This article explores middle-aged and older Chinese women’s attitudes concerning sex in later life, the actual prevalence of sexual activity among these women, and the relation of their sexual attitudes to their sexual behavior. By comparing media discourse on the sexua…
Ethical Currents
When Research Ethics and Regulatory Procedures Collide
China's Revolutions and Intergenerational Relations . Martin King Whyte
Sexual “Liberation” and the Older Woman in Contemporary Mainland China
Over the past two decades, the People’s Republic of China has witnessed a growing media debate concerning traditional injunctions against romance, sex, and marriage in later life. This article explores middle-aged and older Chinese women’s attitudes concerning sex in later life, the actual prevalence of sexual activity among these women, and the relation of their sexual attitudes to their sexual behavior. By comparing media discourse on the sexua…
Women's midlife symptom-reporting in China
This report draws on data from the author's China Study of Midlife Women (CSMW) to test the popular notion that East Asian women have a low level of midlife symptom reporting compared with North American women. Symptom-reporting frequencies from a general population sample of 156 Chinese women of age 45-55 in China are compared with rates from published studies on midlife women in Japan, Canada, and the U.S. While the Japanese women's rates of re…
Cross-cultural comparison of women’s midlife symptom-reporting
Dressing the Older Woman in Post-Mao China
This article examines Chinese discourses on dressing the aging female body as a window into the tensions involved in the historical transformation of habitus in early post-Mao China. Drawing on Chinese media articles and ethnographic interviews conducted with Chinese women in their 40s-60s, the analysis compares depictions of new official ideals for older women's dress that appeared in Chinese government-sponsored feminist media with ordinary old…
Revolutionary narratives of self-compassion among older women in post-Mao Beijing
Drawing upon interviews and participant observation conducted with hundreds of middle-aged and elderly Chinese women in rural and urban neighborhoods in Beijing Municipality between 1993 and 2012, this paper explores the emergence of revolutionary new narratives of self-compassion among older women in reform-era Beijing. Taught before 1949 that they should first and foremost serve their families and after 1949 that they should put their own indiv…
Menopause and Midlife Aging in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
The Impact of Positive Self‐Perceptions of Aging on Subjective Well‐Being through the Mediation of Psychological Resilience among Community‐Dwelling Older Adults during Covid‐19 in Taiwan
During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the well‐being of older adults has been highlighted as a significant public health concern. In this study, we investigated the role of psychological resilience in mediating the relationship between positive self‐perceptions of aging (SPA) and the subjective well‐being (SWB) of community‐dwelling older adults in Taiwan during the pandemic. We collected data through face‐to‐face interviews conducted from October 2021 t…
Sociology (9 works) · China (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)