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The Class Of ’65: Boomers At Sixty Recall Turning Points That Shaped Their Lives A Narrative Approach, Mary C. Poole
The Class Of ’65: Boomers At Sixty Recall Turning Points That Shaped Their Lives A Narrative Approach, Mary C. Poole
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores the lives of baby boomers turning sixty as they use narrative to review their past by focusing on turning points. They reflect upon their present, and anticipate their future. The story begins at the St. Pius X High School Class of 1965's fortieth reunion, and proceeds to a class sixtieth birthday celebration and focus group. In addition, five members of the class record their life stories retrospectively. This research explores issues of identity, both personal and generational; the social construction of aging; grief, loss and death; and resilience, meaning, and spirituality. Methods used are autoethnography, narrative, participant …
The Role Of Lifestyle Factors In Cognitive Aging And Dementia, Tiffany F. Hughes
The Role Of Lifestyle Factors In Cognitive Aging And Dementia, Tiffany F. Hughes
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
It is widely accepted that cognitive abilities decline with normal aging. At the same time it is also recognized that there is variability in the magnitude and rate of decline among aging individuals. A similar phenomenon exists for dementia, where individuals with similar neuropathologic burden present with varying degrees of cognitive impairment. Of importance is determining what factors account for this variability, and whether individuals can modify these factors in order to preserve their cognitive abilities with aging or delay the onset of dementia.
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine three potentially modifiable lifestyle factors' association with age-related …
Counting Or Discounting Television Information: An Examination Of Viewer Perceptions About Old-Age From A Cognitive Processing Perspective Of Cultivation Effects, Lynda Pasteur
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Cultivation theory (Gerbner & Gross, 1976) suggests that the cumulative effect of heavy exposure to television's underrepresentation and negative portrayal of people 65+ as sexless, insignificant, and comical can cause people to assume such television-like perceptions of the age group in the real world. This study's purpose was to explore not only television's cultivation effect on viewers' perceptions of the number and nature of people 65+, but also the psychological processes that are expected to mediate this effect. As an extension of Shrum, Wyer, and O'Guinn's (1998) study on the role of source discounting in cultivation, this quasi-experiment employed three …