Predictors of Middle Aged Women’s Psychological Well-Being: Attitudes Toward Parents

Krukova, Tatyana L.; Saporovskaia, Maria V.; Voronina, Maria E.

doi:10.21277/sw.v2i8.381

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“…Psychological well-being and psycho-emotional health of a woman are strongly conjugated with the type of attitude she has toward her parents [ 19 , 40 , 41 ]. These relationships could become a relevant personal resource, enhancing the woman’s family identity and generational integrity, developing her understanding of life value and the inevitability of its end, and promoting the feeling of control over her own life.…”

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“…An important characteristic of the relationship of a middle-aged woman with her elderly parents is the feelings of guilt toward them and the attachment style. Feeling guilty in adulthood is a psychological mechanism that motivates a woman to adhere to the eudemonic lifestyle, i.e., to actualize oneself via care for the “other”—in this case, for ageing parents and growing children [ 19 , 42 ]. On the other hand, the role of guilt in a female personal development is not so straightforward.…”

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“…At this age, women are in a transition between the life’s scenarios “inherited” from parents to the independent life planning. However, the subjective factor (the style of attachment, specifics of separation, and guilt toward parents) has a significant influence on the specifics and effectiveness of the process [ 18 , 19 ].…”

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“…We see psycho-emotional health as the basis of personal functionality and stability against the influence of external factors. Among its indicators are psychological and emotional well-being, the emotional state, and the meaning-value regulation (namely, life goals, meaningfulness, and control of life) [ 9 , 19 ].…”

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A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle

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(1) Background: The present study is aimed to determine the predicting role of objective (lifestyle) and subjective factors of middle-aged women’s psycho-emotional health such as their relations with parents, attachment and separation types. Women who are overloaded with professional and family roles have high stress level, their indicators of psychological well-being and emotional level decrease when they have to give everyday care to their elderly parents. (2) Methods: The research sample has two empirical groups. Sample of Study 1 includes middle-aged women (n = 61) aged 38–56 (M = 48.1, SD = 3.5); sample of Study 2 includes middle-aged women (n = 85) aged 33–52 (M = 40.6, SD = 3.1): married (70.5%) and divorced (29.5%), having children of 14–28 years old; giving everyday care to elderly parents for more than 1.5 yrs. Some live separately (62.3 %), or have to cohabitate with parents (37.7%). All women evaluate their life situation as difficult and manifest signs of high psycho-emotional stress. We used methods adapted for the Russian-speaking sample: getting socio-demographic information, an interview; The scales of psychological well-being; Attachment style and Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaires (study 1); Psychological Separation Inventory, Purpose-in-Life Test, projective methods (study 2), mathematical statistics. (3) Results: A number of factors and indicators of women’s psycho-emotional health decrease in the situation of role overload have been identified. Among the factors there are four main types of women’s relationships with parents: Anxious closeness; Ambivalence of feelings; Secondary relationship with parents; Alienation, predicting of psycho-emotional health that are reducing or enhancing their personal resources. Besides, a type of separation of an adult woman from her mother predicts her level of well-being. (4) Conclusions: The study confirms that middle-aged Russian women’s psycho-emotional health depends on contextual factors (difficult role-overloaded lifestyle) and factors integrating women‘s relations towards parents, attachment, guilt and separation. Types of middle-aged women’s relationships with parents contribute to their psychoemotional health in a different way.

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“…Podobina, M.V. Saporovskaya) structural organization of psychological well-being components (Positive Interacting; Autonomy; Environment Management;Personal Growth; Goals in Life; Self-Acceptance; Self-Esteem; Readiness for New Experience) of women with 'intersectional' family identity(Voronina, 2018) was analyzed.It was discovered that significance of trust-based relations with others and care of others' well-being, empathy, affection, and compromises in relationship (Positive Interacting scale r=0.18 with p=0.03) increases over time. In the period of medium adulthood the role of close relationship (first of all, family) in a woman's life increases, these relations take a special meaning, they become an indicator of her success / lack of success.…”

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Women’s “Intersectional” Generatinal Identity In A Family And Their Psychological Well-Being

Saporovskaya¹

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The significance of the phenomenon of "intersecting" family identity (sandwich generation syndrome) is revealed. It is shown that the intersection of role duties associated with the simultaneous care of children and elderly parents reflects the psychological essence of this phenomenon. Its consequences for the development of the personality of women, including family burnout, are described. The conjugacy of "intersecting" family identity and components of psychological well-being is analyzed. The results of empirical studies of the features of the structure of the psychological well-being of women with overlapping family identity, the specifics of family burnout and the features of their role self-identification are presented. The such components of well-being as managing the surrounding and one's own life (the "architect of life"), the meaningfulness of goals in life are central. Self-esteem and susceptibility / immunity to new life experiences in the structure of the components of psychological well-being, are those components that are associated with its positive or negative dynamics. It is noted also, that the family burnout in women mostly represented by emotional exhaustion, which is due to the feeling of lack of personal time. It is shown that the specificity of psychological well-being and family burnout of women with "intersecting" identity is associated with their role self-identification in the familyeither Guardian and Adult together, or Child itself. It is also noted that the women with a clear self-identification of themselves as a guardian, an adult in relation to both their children and parents, demonstrate higher levels of psychological well-being.

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Women’s Midlife Health

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Handbook of Global Health

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Predictors of Middle Aged Women’s Psychological Well-Being: Attitudes Toward Parents

Cited by 6 publications

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A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle

A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle

Women’s “Intersectional” Generatinal Identity In A Family And Their Psychological Well-Being

Women’s Midlife Health

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