Stress Coping Mechanisms in Elderly Adults: An Initial Study of Recreational and Other Coping Behaviors in Nursing Home Patients

Hunter, I. Roy; Gillen, Mark C.

doi:10.1002/j.2161-0029.2009.tb00056.x

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“…Specifically, Hunter and Gillen (2009) determined that leisure engagement is an important stress coping mechanism for older adults. In addition, there is a strong positive relationship among social leisure engagement, subjective wellbeing, and functional status of older adults (Simone & Haas, 2013).…”

Section: Need: Self-determinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

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This article provides a description of salient themes that emerged from an investigation examining perceptions of leisure engagement by older adults who attend senior centers. A qualitative study initially using four focus groups was conducted with 34 older adults (ages 64-95, M = 78.24, SD = 8.24), including 27 women. As a follow-up, participants from the original focus groups and demographically similar older adults attended five focus groups that were used as member check events. Data were generated from the original four focus groups and five member check sessions totalling nine focus groups. Eighteen themes emerged to create the foundation for a framework based on selfdetermination theory that provides insight into the complex experiences described by senior center users. Although challenges associated with aging threaten the ability of older adults to meet their self-determination needs, they develop adaptation strategies to overcome these difficulties and achieve autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

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Section: Need: Self-determinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Leisure by Older Adults Who Attend Senior Centers

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“…The first crucial contribution of the SC perspective is that its findings demonstrated how vital media use is for coping processes. In qualitative studies, media use emerged as one of the most important coping behaviors in very different contexts (e.g., I. R. Hunter & Gillen, 2009;Lapp et al, 2010). Quantitative studies have also found media use to be one of the most used coping behaviors (e.g., Bland et al, 2012;.…”

Section: Stress and Coping (Sc) Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Using Media for Coping: A Scoping Review

Wolfers

Schneider

2020

Communication Research

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Mobile phones, television, internet services, games, and social media offer diverse and numerous opportunities for coping with stress in everyday life. Different disciplines have contributed to answering how these media are used for coping. Consequently, fragmented and disconnected research perspectives have evolved. To improve integration, we conducted a scoping review. A total of 318 articles met the inclusion criteria. Three main perspectives on media use for coping were identified: (1) stress and coping, (2) mood management and emotion regulation, and (3) media addiction and problematic media use. Each perspective has contributed to different aspects of the use of media for coping. Six advancements are proposed, which attempt to integrate perspectives and to guide future research on coping using media.

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“…Simultaneously, recent evidence suggested that depressed mood was caused by more negative emotion input with less suitable conflict-solving strategies, and in turn it directly influenced the morbidity and mortality of chronic health conditions. Medical health conditions such as diabetes, stroke, cancers, and dementia became the biggest sources of stress [8,9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hunter and Gillen [9] suggested that designing stresscoping RT for elderly adults is challenging and yet well understood. Johnson [12] summarized the general relationship between RT and depression in elderly, which can be regarded as informative, but less systematic in the summary of the results.…”

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confidence: 99%