Spirituality and Health in Older Thai Persons in the United States

Pincharoen, Sumon; Congdon, JoAnn G.

doi:10.1177/0193945902238838

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“…Some variation may be explained by the younger age of Kwong's participants. In a similar vein, Pincharoen and Congdon (2003) found that participants enjoyed talking about things for which they felt valued and respected by their communities. Domestic and social standing may well be accrued through the ritualistic value of Songkran food events (Hayami, 1998;Moore, 1996).…”

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“…Personal faith was seen to contribute positively to quality of life for Thai women living with diabetes (Puavilai & Stuifbergen, 2000). As well, older Thai men and women living in the United States found going to the temple improved healthfulness and happiness through finding comfort and peace, and harmonising the body and mind (Pincharoen & Congdon, 2003).…”

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“…In doing so, women continue to nurture their deceased ancestors, show selfless generosity, and accumulate merit for themselves and their families. In this way, they avoid a life of suffering and bring peace and harmony in this life and the next (Klausner, 1998;Kwong, 2000;Limanonda;Pincharoen & Congdon, 2003 (Moore, 1996, p. 5). In this study, the women talked about going to the temple until they were no longer able to rise up from their beds.…”

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Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran

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It is deep within our hearts that we have to do this." Such words reflect the potency of subjective and social meaning of food occupations for older Thai women at Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year. This paper presents the Thai findings from a multi-site research project exploring older women's experiences of food occupations at Songkran in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Christmas in Auckland, New Zealand, and Kentucky, USA. Narrative data for this study were collected through focus group interviews with 33 Thai women aged 60 years or over as the women talked about planning, preparing, and offering food at Songkran. The women's stories reveal the centrality of carrying on ritualistic food traditions in Chiang Mai society. They must know and follow the ancient ways and recipes taught by mothers and grandmothers as they prepare themselves and the foods for going to the temple where they offer food to the monks and their deceased ancestors. Happiness comes from earning merit, doing the jobs themselves and knowing they contribute to a good and generous Thai society. Their ways are the traditional ways. Doing and passing on food occupations to their daughters and granddaughters will "serve the good traditions forever." The findings from this study contribute to the occupational science literature through documenting food occupations and their meanings for older women within one cultural group. The multi-site nature of the project contributes to understandings of occupation that transcend cultural boundaries.

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“…In fact, the respondents' purposes for engaging in activities were altruistic in nature and rewarded them with nothing more but a sense of self-worth and usefulness. According to Pincharoen and Congdon (2003), aging is a time to cultivate a conscious candor within the self and the body, thus allowing one to develop a stronger spirit and relationship with the body as it declines. In the same light, the elderly respondents recognized an ardent force within themselves that propelled them toward spirituality and religious activity-now more than ever.…”

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Filipino Elderly's Sense of Reminiscence, Living Disposition, and End-of-Life Views

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Chua

Claudio

et al. 2009

Educational Gerontology

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“…In addition, post-positivism, pragmatism and advocacy have been identified as approaches between these two extremes (Jennings, 2010;Pincharoen & Congdon, 2003;Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2003).…”

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An exploration of mindfulness and its experiential benefits: Taiwanese backpackers in Australia

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Stress in everyday life is common in our postmodern society leading some people to seek relief and fulfilment from a range of leisure and lifestyle activities such as travel experiences. Travel in itself, even adventurous or unstructured travel does not guarantee that travellers will receive positive benefits from their experiences. However, the notion of mindfulness may play an important role in producing positive consequences from different experiences. Thus, this study explores the nature and experiential benefits of 'meditative mindful' tourist experiences that can be experienced during travel.Mindfulness is a mental state that may facilitate positive experiences. Understanding the importance of mindfulness is becoming a mainstream field of academic study in many therapeutic settings.However, there has been little discussion of mindfulness theory as it might be applied to tourism studies. Previous research in tourism has mainly focused on socio-cognitive mindfulness related to visitor learning rather than meditative mindfulness experiences. These include contexts such as tourist-wildlife encounters, appreciation of scenery, or through interaction with other people. The conceptual framework in this thesis is based on the Eastern notion of meditative mindfulness and has been used in Western therapeutic studies. In the past decade, evidence of the effectiveness and application of meditative mindfulness has grown dramatically due to a developing dialogue between Buddhist traditions and Western clinical psychology. There is a growing interest in whether meditative mindful experiences can occur outside of formal therapeutic settings, including travel.However, it is not clear how meditative mindful tourism experiences might be defined or whether they occur at all during travel. Furthermore, few studies have investigated the antecedents and consequences of meditative mindful experiences in tourism contexts.This thesis presents an exploratory study of the occurrence as well as the antecedents and consequences of the meditative mindfulness phenomenon in a tourism context. A qualitative methodology based on an interpretive constructivist paradigm was adopted for the data collection.Taiwanese backpackers in Australia were selected as respondents and snowball sampling was used to recruit participants. In total, 43 semi-structured interviews were completed, and a total of 77 instances of meditative mindful experiences were identified. The semi-structured interviews were conducted in Brisbane (at backpacker hostels) and at Uluru (Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park), as these two main sites provided the best opportunities to meet Taiwanese backpackers. Two interview protocols were used in screening and extended interviews for qualifying and exploring the three research objectives. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. NVivo 10 qualitative analysis software was used to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the data analysis process.iii The findings indicated that meditative mindful ...

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Spirituality and Health in Older Thai Persons in the United States

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran

Offerings: Food Traditions of Older Thai Women at Songkran

Filipino Elderly's Sense of Reminiscence, Living Disposition, and End-of-Life Views

An exploration of mindfulness and its experiential benefits: Taiwanese backpackers in Australia

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