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An investigation of the relationship between power and health conception in the middlescent woman

Repta, Shirley Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057848477

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1994, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Nursing.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a woman's sense of her power and her conception of health. Further, the relationship of selected demographic variables to both power and health conception were explored. This study was based on the combination of work by Stevenson on middlescence, Barrett on power and Lafferty on Health Conception. These works were converged to expand the knowledge of women in relation to these two integral concepts. This study employed a correlational survey design. The population from which the sample was obtained was women registered to vote in Cuyahoga county. A net sample of 240 subjects, representing a return rate of 16.7% was obtained. The participants were predominately caucasian, with a representation of African Americans comparable to the national average. Other minorities were under represented. In addition, this sample was predominately married, well educated and employed in semi professional or professional occupations. Incomes for the participants was above the average. Six hypotheses were proposed to test the relationship between power and health conception in middlescent women. The hypotheses were tested by computing correlational matrices and one way analyses of variance. In addition a multiple regression analysis was used to examine the proposed relationships, and a discriminate function analysis was performed to test the ability to predict group membership of participants for the four health conceptions. The data analysis did not produce the expected results. The Freedom to Act Intentionally, of the PKPCT was the only subscale to emerge. The other significant finding was the frequency in which the Role Performance and Adaptive Health Conceptions were identified as the predominant Health Conception for the participants in this study. In Conclusion, age does not appear to be as important a variable in relation to health conception and power as was previously thought. It may be that historical and social-cultural changes are woven into the pattern of women's lives in such a complex nature as to mute the effect of age by itself.
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  • Repta, S. M. (1994). An investigation of the relationship between power and health conception in the middlescent woman [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057848477

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Repta, Shirley. An investigation of the relationship between power and health conception in the middlescent woman. 1994. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057848477.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Repta, Shirley. "An investigation of the relationship between power and health conception in the middlescent woman." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057848477

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