The Shaping of Midlife Women's Views of Health and Health Behaviors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4668243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Smith-Dijulio (University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA,, corresponding author), Carol Windsor (0000-0001-6521-1691, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia), Debra Anderson (0000-0001-8996-9624, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 966-976 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732310362985 |
| PMID | 20207956 |
| OpenAlex | W1592313685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 30 |
The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist, inductive approach in exploring how and why midlife women think about health in general, about being healthy, and about factors that influence engaging in healthy behaviors. The sample constituted 23 women who had participated in a women's wellness program intervention trial and subsequent interviews. The women described lives of healthy eating and exercise, yet, their perceptions of health and healthy behavior at midlife contradicted that history. Midlife was associated with risk and guilt at not doing enough to be healthy. Health professionals provided a very limited frame within which to judge what is healthy. Mostly this was left up to individual women. Those who were successful framed health as "being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it." In this article we present study findings of how meanings attached to health and being healthy were constructed through social expectations, family relationships, and life experiences
Developmental psychology · Life course approach · Perception · Psychiatry · Medicine · Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |