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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: relationship between attributional dimensions and life satisfaction among elderly residents of congregate housing
  name:
    name part: Yates, William Spencer.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Duffy, Michael
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Palmer, Douglas J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Stone, Robert S.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Victor L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Wood, Wendy
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1986
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 230 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: The major purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attributional dimensions related to significant daily experiences and life satisfaction in elderly residents of congregate housing. A secondary, more applied purpose was to determine if any of these dimensions are recommended for reattribution training for the elderly. An attributional model of life satisfaction in the elderly was proposed. Three phases of the study involved pilot interviews, development of the attributional questionnaire, and the formal study of sixty-eight residents of three separate congregate housing facilities in Texas. Eight significant positive and negative daily experiences and related causal explanations for those experiences were identified by the pilot study subjects. A multidimensional coding scheme was used to develop the attributional questionnaire for the formal study. In the formal study residents were individually interviewed with an attributional questionnaire. Later, all participants were given a group-administered questionnaire to assess predictor variables of life satisfaction as well as the resident's life satisfaction. The Life Satisfaction Scale for the Elderly was used to measure the life satisfaction of the residents. Other measures of perception of control, perceived and functional health, peer and family interaction, and socioeconomic status were used to assess the predictor variables associated with life satisfaction. Although the major predictions regarding the significance of and directional differences for positive and negative daily experiences in the attributional model of life satisfaction were not supported, the stability dimension for positive daily experiences was found to have a significant if modest relationship with life satisfaction among the elderly. The importance of understanding the implications of the stability dimension's relationship with life satisfaction was discussed. Recommendations for future research include the applied …
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology Texas A & M University 1986
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-140).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Attribution (Social psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Older people
    topic: Mental health
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Satisfaction
  subject:
    topic: Major counseling psychology
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-600546
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 870917
    record change date: 20220104090347.0
    record identifier: in00000583244
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng