Coping and adaptation in older black women. 1980.

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Coping and adaptation in older black women. 1980.

The goal of this study was to describe the coping styles used by a sample of well-educated, achieving, aging African-American women and a comparison group of white women to investigate the degree to which they exhibited successful psychological adaptation to aging. The sources of data for the project were 60 oral history transcripts collected for the Black Women Oral History Project (BWOH) conducted by the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College on the History of Women in America. The sample consisted of educated African-American women, aged 60 or older, selected for their extraordinary achievements and contributions. The data from these women and from a comparison sample of oral histories from 31 educated successful white women were coded for five classes of variables in a manner that allowed for comparison. The indices of coping and adaptation include reported coping style in handling difficult incidents, overall level of adaptation, and level of adaptation to widowhood and retirement. The data set assesses demographic and background variables, early adult life experience variables, later adult life experience variables, personality variables, and current life situation variables. The Murray Center has raw data in the form of data summary sheets and written telephone interview data where information in the oral history transcripts was incomplete. There are also photocopied pages of critical incidents and life situations from the oral history transcripts. The Murray Center has interview schedules and computer-accessible data. The oral history transcripts for both samples are available at the Schlesinger Library.

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