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Rush of regret: a longitudinal analysis of naturalistic regrets
Get PDFThe current research examines immediate regrets occurring at the time of a meaningful
life outcome to better understand influences on real-life regrets. This research used a
longitudinal approach to examine both initial severity and the rate of change in immediate regrets. Initial severity was associated with greater past control over the
outcome and lower levels of future ability to attain goals relevant to the regret and correct
the regretted situation. Regret decreased over time, but less so if it concerned attainable
ongoing goals. These contrasting effects of future opportunity on initial severity and
change over time support a Dynamic Opportunity Principle of regret. Furthermore, the
effects of past opportunity and of actions versus inactions on immediate regrets diverged
from past findings about retrospective regrets. Immediate regrets may fundamentally
differ from retrospective regrets, and implications for our understanding of regret are
discussed
Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
Get PDF16 years of tracking utilization trends for institutional and home-based services and supports shows that Ohio has made considerable changes i its approach to delivering long-term services and supports. For example, in 2009 mor than four in ten older people receiving Medicaid long-term care received assistance in a non-institutional setting
What we regret most . . . and why
Get PDFWhich domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret,
and what features of those life domains explain why? Using
archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater
perceived opportunity within life domains evokes more intense
regret. This pattern is consistent with previous publications demonstrating
greater regret stemming from high rather than low
opportunity or choice. A meta-analysis of 11 regret ranking studies
revealed that the top six biggest regrets in life center on (in
descending order) education, career, romance, parenting, the
self, and leisure. Study Set 2 provided new laboratory evidence
that directly linked the regret ranking to perceived opportunity.
Study Set 3 ruled out an alternative interpretation involving
framing effects. Overall, these findings show that people’s biggest
regrets are a reflection of where in life they see their largest opportunities;
that is, where they see tangible prospects for change,
growth, and renewal
GenerAges : Generations as They Age
Get PDFGenerAges examines the history and culture of the 20th century that shaped the lives of Americans age 65 and older today, with a special focus on the generations coming of age in the 1920s (centenarians), ‘40s (the Greatest Generation) and ‘60s (Age of Aquarius). The lengthy work is full of statistics and information regarding what was then the technological revolution of the early 20th century as well as the cultural revolution of the 1960s and early 1970s that ushered in a new era of civil rights and women’s liberation and equality.
While this study emphasizes the enormous amount of technological, social and cultural change over the past century, it also stresses a certain commonality found among generations in their quest for peace and prosperity, and that “each will be on the cutting edge of fashion, technology and modern conveniences; and each will recede into history with relative rapidity, appearing amusingly antiquated in the process.
Self-report measures of individual differences in regulatory focus: a cautionary note
Get PDFRegulatory focus theory distinguishes between two independent structures of strategic inclination,
promotion versus prevention. However, the theory implies two potentially independent definitions
of these inclinations, the self-guide versus the reference-point definitions. Two scales (the
Regulatory Focus Questionnaire [Higgins, E. T., Friedman, R. S., Harlow, R. E., Idson, L. C.,
Ayduk, O. N., & Taylor, A. (2001). Achievement orientations from subjective histories of success:
Promotion pride versus prevention pride. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 3–23] and
the General Regulatory Focus Measure [Lockwood, P., Jordan, C. H., & Kunda, Z. (2002). Motivation
by positive and negative role models: Regulatory focus determines who will best inspire us.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83, 854–864]) have been widely used to measure dispositional
regulatory focus. We suggest that these two scales align respectively with the two definitions,
and find that the two scales are largely uncorrelated. Both conceptual and methodological implications
are discussed
Publishing the Russian Soul? Women’s Provincial Literary Anthologies, 1990-1995
Get PDFFrom 1990 to 1995 four collections of women’s writing appeared in northwestern Russia: Mariia (two volumes: one issued in 1990 and the other in 1995), Zhena, kotoraia umela letat’ (The Wife Who Could Fly, 1993), and Russkaia dusha (Russian Soul, 1995). These volumes, all but ignored by Russian and Western critics, were published at the same time as a series of similar anthologies in Moscow. In the West this lack of attention is somewhat understandable – the prose, poetry, and essays from the provincial anthologies have not been translated
Understanding breast-cancer patients’ perceptions: Health information-seeking behaviour and passive information receipt
Get PDFIt is critical to understand patients’ information
use from the patient perspective, especially
when patients are from different cultures and
levels of health literacy. A cross-sectional survey
supplemented with interviews of breast cancer
survivors including both Latina and non-
Latina women was undertaken. Subjects were
classified as active information seekers, passive
information receivers, and/or users of information.
Subjects were further classified by stage of
information use, progressing from unawareness
or awareness of available information to use
or non-use of information to make health
decisions. Information sources used and use
patterns were examined. Most were active
information seekers; many were also passive
receivers. Healthcare providers remain the
primary information source. Interpersonal communication
was far more often cited than either
the internet or traditional print and broadcast
media. Important cross-cultural differences
were found. This study provides insight into
how patients use actively sought and passively
received information. Despite dramatic
growth of the internet and other new media,
healthcare providers currently remain keys to
health information. Findings may help develop
more successful communication strategies when
viewed in light of the National Cancer Institute’s
‘Making Health Communication Programs
Work’ and the four stages it proposes. It
is hoped that future work will focus on
evidence-based methods to improve health communication,
especially for vulnerable populations.
A major lesson learned is the importance
of understanding where patients decided to seek
information outside the traditional provideroriented
approach taken in many health education
programmes
Implementation of the 2010 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey : Final Report
Get PDFIn 2010, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the fifth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This year the survey had the largest number of family response ever, with 97% of facilities participating and nearly 30,000 involved family and friends responding. An online version of the family survey was also made available for the first time. The report includes information about the survey process, psychometric analysis of the survey, and recommendations for future implementation of the family survey. The family satisfaction survey is one important component of the comprehensive nursing home information shown on the Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide (www.ltcohio.org). Overall scores are also used as a quality component of Ohio's nursing home Medicaid reimbursement formula
