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Coping Strategies of Older Women Article Heidrich, S.M. & Ryff, C.D.

Heidrich, S.M. & Ryff, C.D. (1992). How elderly women cope: Concerns and strategies. Public Health Nursing, 9(3), 200-208.

The title of the article was, "How elderly women cope: Concerns and strategies." To some extent, th title is broader than either the intervention or the sample. First, although the women could properly be characterized as "elderly" (Mean age = 74 years), they actually constituted a narrow subset of the population of elderly women.

Specifically, they were highly educated women with good incomes who were mostly widows, who lived in a single geographic area. Moreover, the study examine coping only as it related to aging and age-related changes. How older women coped in general across their various problems was not examined in the study although the title makes it sound like this was the examination that was conducted.

The general thrust of the literature review was aimed at supporting the notion that there is a need for the conducted research. To this end, the review cites numerous studies (all of which are from reputable professional journals) focusing in on their conceptual and/or methodological short-comings. The points made about these shortcomings are logical and well-stated, thereby supporting and justifying the conducted research.

The reviewed research also provided a good overview of the general literature on how older women are coping or attempting to cope with aging and age-related changes. One problematic aspect of the presented review of literature, however, is that a good deal of the cited literature is at least ten years old. More current studies should have been included.

No research questions or hypotheses are formally stated in the study. Nonetheless, the authors do fully specify their general research interests. These are: an interest in determining coping strategies, an interest in identifying age-related concerns, an interest in determining whether strategies selecte...

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