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The Claremont Graduate University., Behavioral and Organizational Sciences.

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Relational Self-Expansion in Older Adulthood: Do Age-Related Emotional Goals Influence the Mechanisms of Expansion?

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正題名/作者:	Relational Self-Expansion in Older Adulthood: Do Age-Related Emotional Goals Influence the Mechanisms of Expansion?/
作者:	Branand, Brittany A.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	128 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-11B.
標題:	Aging. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10791225
ISBN:	9780355951745

Relational Self-Expansion in Older Adulthood: Do Age-Related Emotional Goals Influence the Mechanisms of Expansion?
Branand, Brittany A.

Relational Self-Expansion in Older Adulthood: Do Age-Related Emotional Goals Influence the Mechanisms of Expansion? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 128 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2018.

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While having a network of social relationships yields benefits to older adults, their romantic relationships, in particular, offer unique advantages. A better understanding of the goals of older adults with regard to their romantic relationships will enhance efforts to assist older adults to thrive throughout their now longer life-span. This dissertation incorporates the principles of two frameworks. The self-expansion model holds that there is a basic human need for personal growth and that one path to that growth is through relationships and interactions with significant others wherein one incorporates new resources, perspectives, and identities of the other into the self. However, the model has yet to be tested in the older adult population. Socioemotional selectivity theory posits that as people age they become more selective in their social partners and that their social goals become more emotional than informational, which could impact the direction of self-expansion in older adulthood. This mixed-method, multi-study dissertation was designed to assess the two frameworks in concert. Study 1 employed qualitative interviews with older adults to explore the existence and nature of self-expansion in older adulthood and to assist in the construction of a quantitative, Self-expansion Mechanism Questionnaire (SEM-Q) with two subscales: broadening (e.g., experiences that provide new knowledge, skills, roles and/or introduce new people) and deepening (e.g., experiences that enhance meaning in life, deepen intimacy, and/or enrich generativity). In Study 2, the SEM-Q was administered in two rounds to 419 older adults and provided initial support for the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the SEM-Q. In Study 3, the SEM-Q was administered to 220 older adults and 212 younger adults. High levels of self-expansion through both broadening and deepening were significantly associated with high levels of relationship satisfaction for both age groups; no age differences were found for either mechanism. This dissertation empirically tested self-expansion for the first time within the older adult population. These studies confirmed the established mechanism of broadening was operating in the self-expansion of older adults, and further confirmed that the deepening mechanism, which adds emotionally meaningful expansion, was also operating significantly in both younger and older adulthood.

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