Future time perspective and food habits of the aged /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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[College Station, Tex.] :
Shifflett,
1980.
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| Online Access: | Link to ProQuest copy Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Abstract: | The primary objective of this research was an exploration of the role of future time perspective in the choice of food use patterns or the maintenance of life-long food habits of a sample of people over sixty years old. A second objective was to explore and identify the structural context of a negative or positive future time perspective as it related to age-appropriate food use patterns and dietary adequacy. The theoretical context for this exploratory research was symbolic interactionism specifically the Meadian theory of time as a process. The concern was aged people's choice of food use patterns (the present) as a reflection of structural conditions (the past) and the perception of a negative or positive future. A sample of 201 aged people were examined to explore the research problem. The methodology used was the constant comparative method--an inductive method of discovering theory. The method required qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of research techniques. The analysis of data from observations, informal and formal interviews, documents, and a survey revealed three general ways in which the sample of people over age sixty related to food. These were (1) positive changes in food habits; (2) maintenance of life-long food habits; and (3) negative changes in food habits. Future time perspective was found to be correlated with these food use patterns; that is, a positive future time perspective was more likely to be associated with positive changes in food habits while a negative future time perspective was more likely to correlate with negative food habit changes. Examination of the structural context, however, revealed four ways in which future time perspective and age-appropriate food use patterns were related within unique structural contexts: (1) a positive future time perspective was associated with positive changes in food habits; (2) maintenance of life-long food habits was not associated with a negative or positive future time perspective; (3) a negative future time perspective was associated with positive changes in food habits; and (4) a negative future time perspective was associated with negative changes in food habits... |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Sociology." Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 323 leaves : map ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 268-285). |