När en kvinna får sitt första barn skapar hon en ny identitet som mamma. Hon ställs inför nya situationer vilket skapar en osäkerhet. Tidigare sociala sammanhang som till exempel arbete eller studier sätts på paus och även vänskapsrelationer kan genomgå en förändring. Känslor av ensamhet och oro leder till att individen söker sig till andra som har liknande upplevelser. Många kvinnor finner stöd i grupper som anordnas på Familjecentralen. Syftet med denna kvalitativa studie är att förstå kvinnors upplevelser kring sitt identitetsskapande under första tiden som förälder samt vilken betydelse sociala relationer med andra nyblivna föräldrar har för att öka trygghet och skapa mindre ensamhet i föräldrarollen. Studien har använt socialpsykologiska teorier kring exempelvis självet, kategorisering och social jämförelse för att tolka och förstå respondenternas upplevelser. I studien utfördes 10 semistrukturerade intervjuer med förstagångsmödrar om deras upplevelser kring att bli mamma. Studiens resultat visar hur mammaidentiteten växer fram och hur kvinnans tro på sin egen förmåga är kopplat till barnets välmående. Barnet blir en del av kvinnans självbild. I föräldragruppen upplever kvinnorna en gemenskap med andra i samma situation. Råd, stöd, tankar och upplevelser delas i ett öppet klimat vilket tillsammans med möjlighet att rådfråga personal leder till ökad trygghet och minskad känsla av ensamhet. / When a woman has her first child, she creates a new identity as a mother. She is faced with new situations, which creates uncertainty. Previous social contexts such as work or studies are put on hold and even friendships can undergo a change. Feelings of loneliness and anxiety lead the individual to seek out others who have similar experiences. Many women find support in groups organized at the Family Centre. The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand womens´ experiences regarding their identity creation during the first time as a parent, as well as the importance of social relationships with other new parents to increase security and create less loneliness in the parental role. The study has used social psychological theories regarding, for example, the self, categorization and social comparison to interpret and understand the respondents' experiences. In the study, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with first-time mothers regarding their experiences of becoming a mother. The study's results show how the mother's identity develops and how the woman's belief in her own abilities is linked to the child's well-being. The child becomes part of the woman's self-image. In the parent group, the women experience a community with others in the same situation. Advice, support, thoughts and experiences are shared in an open climate, which together with the opportunity to consult staff leads to increased security and a reduced feeling of loneliness.

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La présente recherche vise à cerner les liens entre l’isolement et les traits psychopathiques avec le risque de récidive chez les délinquants sexuels. La littérature scientifique montre que le manque d’intimité, le sentiment de solitude et la psychopathie sont des caractéristiques très présentes chez les délinquants sexuels. Le manque d’intimité et la solitude émotionnelle peuvent être dus à une peur du rejet en lien avec un attachement fragile. D’un autre côté, l’isolement social peut être lié à des déficits relationnels causés par la présence de traits psychopathiques. De plus, le manque d’intimité, la solitude émotionnelle et les traits psychopathiques engendrent de l’hostilité et ont chacun un impact sur la récidive. La présente étude a alors pour objectif de voir les liens entre le manque d’intimité, le sentiment de solitude, les traits psychopathiques et l’hostilité avec le risque de récidive sexuelle et violente tel qu’évalué par la Statique-99. Les résultats font ressortir qu’il n’y a pas de relation entre l’isolement et les traits psychopathiques mais que l’isolement et les traits psychopathiques sont liés à l’hostilité. Les agresseurs sexuels d’adultes sont plus psychopathiques que les agresseurs sexuels d’enfants qui éprouvent plus de solitude émotionnelle. Les traits psychopathiques sont liés à la dimension antisociale et la solitude émotionnelle à la dimension sexuelle de la Statique-99. La solitude émotionnelle et les traits psychopathiques ont une relation distincte avec le risque de récidive chez les agresseurs sexuels. / The present study aims to determine the links between isolation and psychopathic traits with the risk of recidivism for sexual offenders. The scientific literature shows that a lack of intimacy, loneliness and psychopathy are often found in sexual delinquents. Lack of intimacy and loneliness may be due to a fear of rejection associated with a fragile attachment. On the other hand, social isolation may be related to relational deficits caused by the presence of psychopathic traits. Furthermore, lack of intimacy, loneliness and psychopathic traits engender hostility and each have an impact on recidivism. The objective of the current study is to investigate the effect of lack of intimacy, loneliness, psychopathic traits and hostility on sexual and violent recidivism risk as evaluated by the Static-99, in sexual offenders whose victims are adults or children. Our findings show that there is no link between isolation and psychopathic traits, but isolation and psychopathic traits are bound with the hostility. Sexual offenders whose victims are adults are more psychopathic than those whose victims are children, who show more loneliness. Psychopathic traits are related to the antisocial dimension of the Static-99 and loneliness is related to the sexual dimension of the Static-99. Isolation and psychopathic traits sexual offenders: loneliness and psychopathic traits have a different relation with the risk of recidivism for sexual offenders.

KRÁTKÁ, Eva. The Issues of Meaning of Life and Selected Aspects of Existential Anxiety. Prague, 2012. Dissertation. Charles University in Prague, Philosophical Faculty, Department of Psychology. This dissertation explores issues of experiencing the meaningfulness of life and of selected aspects of existential anxiety, and it verifies whether there is some connection between some measure of meaninglessness of life being experienced and some measure of knowingly experienced existential anxiety and some selected factors which can influence our awareness of our anxiety. The research is focused mainly on adolescents and young and middle-aged adults of different genders, degrees of education and residences in the Czech republic. The survey included 170 respondents and was done with use of quantitative method. Obtained data were processed using the SPSS statistical program, and they are presented in the form of tables, graphs and commentaries. This study confirms an importance and frequency of existential beliefs and experiences and it shows that they are closely connected to an experienced meaningfulness of life and to some personality traits and circumstances of life. Therefore, a deeper research of this area seems to be beneficial and helpful not only from the therapeutic point of view alone.

Problemområde och syfte: Åldrandet kan innebära såväl fysiska som psykiska utmaningar för den enskilde. Kroppen och tillvaron förändras och möjligheterna att delta i sociala nätverk som man gjort tidigare kan begränsas. Många upplever ensamhet vilket i tidigare forskning har visat sig få konsekvenser för såväl välbefinnande som fysisk och psykisk hälsa. Denna studie fokuserar på några av de faktorer som hänger samman med åldrandets livsvillkor; social aktivitet, socialt stöd, ekonomi samt rörelseförmåga och hur dessa kan sättas i samband med upplevelser av ensamhet hos äldre. I en tioårig jämförelse undersöks: (a) hur äldres sociala aktiviteter, socialt stöd, ekonomi och rörelseförmåga förändras över tid, (b) hur upplevelsen av ensamhet hos äldre förändras över tid och (c) hur förändringar gällande social aktivitet, socialt stöd, ekonomi och rörelseförmåga under denna tid påverkar upplevelsen av ensamhet. Material: Data från insamlingstillfällena 2004 och 2014 i den nationellt representativa Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD), en longitudinell undersökning utifrån urvalet i den svenska levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU) användes (n = 466). Metod: Samband mellan ensamhet 2004 och 2014 och social aktivitet, socialt stöd, ekonomi samt rörelseförmåga undersöktes i bivariata analyser och logistiska regressioner. Samband mellan ensamhet 2014 och förändringar under 2004-2014 gällande social aktivitet, socialt stöd, ekonomi samt rörelseförmåga undersöktes i logistisk regression. Resultat: Socialt stöd, ekonomisk buffert och rörelseförmåga kunde associeras till känslor av ensamhet 2004 men endast socialt stöd kvarstod som signifikant associerat till ensamhet då man kontrollerat för kön, ålder och ensamboende. Social aktivitet, socialt stöd och rörelseförmåga kunde associeras till känslor av ensamhet 2014, sambanden kvarstod efter att ja kontrollerat för nämnda bakomliggande faktorer. Social aktivitet och rörelseförmåga minskade betydande under den undersökta tioårsperioden, men endast minskning i rörelseförmåga kunde tydligt associeras till ensamhet. Resultaten analyseras utifrån ett kapabilitetsteoretiskt perspektiv. Slutsatser: Att ha nära stödjande relationer, delta i social aktivitet och inte hämmas av fysisk funktionsnedsättning är viktiga aspekter för att undvika ensamhet. Studien framhåller vikten av det sociala arbetet och samhällets ansvar att möta upp med förmågor när den enskildes inre förmågor avtar, för att på så sätt bidra med möjligheter för den anskilde att leva ett värdigt och värdefullt liv. / Objectives: Aging process may include both physical and mental challenges for the individual. Body and life go through changes and limit the opportunities to participate in social networks in same extent as before. Many elderly experience loneliness, which in previous studies has been shown to have consequences for well-being as for physical and mental health. The objective of this study was to examine some of the factors associated with living conditions in old age (+70); social activity, social support, economy as well as mobility problems and how these can be associated with experiences of loneliness among the elderly. Examined in present ten year comparison is: (a) how the extent of social activities, social support, economy and mobility change over time, (b) how the experience of loneliness in old age change over time and (c) how changes in social activity, social support, economy and mobility during this ten year period affects the experience of loneliness. Material: Data from the 2004 and 2014 waves of the nationally representative Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old (SWEOLD), a longitudinal study and database based on the sample of the Swedish level of living survey (LNU) was used (n = 466). Methods: Correlation between 2004 and 2014 loneliness and social activity, social support, economy and mobility was investigated in bivariate analyses and logistic regressions. Relation between loneliness 2014 and changes during 2004-2014 in social activity, social support, economy and mobility were investigated in logistic regression. Results: Social activity, social support and mobility problems were associated with feelings of loneliness in both 2004 and 2014. Social support and mobility were associated with loneliness 2004 but only social support remained significant associated with loneliness when adjusting for gender, age and living alone. Social activity, social support and mobility were significantly associated with loneliness 2014 even when adjusting for gender, age and living alone. Social activity and mobility decreased during the ten year period but only decrease in mobility was significantly associated with loneliness. The results were analyzed in the light of the capability theory. Conclusions: Supportive relationships, participation in social activity and not be hampered by physical disabilities are important aspects to avoid loneliness. The study stresses the importance of the social work and society's responsibility to meet up with capabilities when the individual's own capabilities are declining to provide opportunities to live a dignified and valuable life.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:39:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PCL - Daniela Della Torre.pdf: 519251 bytes, checksum: 14f1ca2c34c5fb05be06178fff292390 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The work Clarice Lispector: about the loneliness of not belonging to the fourth dimension discusses the major constitutive issues of people s way of being. The dialogue with Clarice Lispector, a well known person, with a special way of being, brings light to this discussion and gives its contribution while presenting its singularity. This study is based on Donald W. Winnicott s psychoanalytical assumptions and especially on Gilberto Safra s id eas about the personal idiom . The story of Clarice, the studies about her, the testimonials she left during her life and the new reading of her works allow us to unveil her personal idiom the mission/issue of belonging/not belonging, her loneliness and silence that appears in her writings. An Artisan s essay tries do reconstruct this career, this way of being. From The loneliness of not belonging to the fourth dimension the personal idiom designs itself in an ontological perspective. In the beginning there is a mission that does not allow a future. But, during her life, it was positioned as an issue and the not belonging and the wish of belonging appear as fundamental aspects. Clarice s loneliness is the center of a secret, of a mystery, behind her thoughts. While the silence, source of my words, becomes her expected presence. The word, fourth dimension, when it appears, touches her hidden face and saves her. Clarice s clarity in face of existence and human condition allow us to discover her humanity, beyond herself. With the word she discovers the destiny of her issues, she builds the bridge between to be and not to be in witch we find singularities of the human being / O estudo Clarice Lispector: da solidão de não pertencer à quarta dimensão reflete sobre as principais questões constitutivas o modo de ser das pessoas. O diálogo com Clarice Lispector, pessoa conhecida e com modo especial de ser, ilumina essa reflexão e contribui para apresentar sua singularidade. Este estudo é norteado pelos pressupostos psicanalíticos de Donald W. Winnicott e, principalmente, baseado nas concepções de Gilberto Safra sobre o idioma pessoal. A história de Clarice, os estudos clariceanos, os depoimentos deixados ao longo de sua obra e a releitura dela apontam para o desvelamento de seu idioma pessoal missão/questão, pertencer/não, solidão e silêncio que deságuam na sua palavra. Tentativa de artesão busca reconstruir essa trajetória, esse jeito de ser. Em Da solidão de não pertencer à quarta dimensão o idioma pessoal vai se desenhando dentro de uma perspectiva ontológica. No começo há uma missão, que impede o devir. No entanto, ao longo da existência foi re-posicionada em questão, surge o não pertencer e o anseio de pertencer como elementos constitutivos. A solidão clariceana é o núcleo do segredo, do mistério, do atrás do pensamento. Enquanto o silêncio, fonte de minhas palavras, se faz presença esperada. É a palavra, quarta dimensão, que ao emergir toca sua face oculta e a salva. A lucidez de Clarice diante da existência e da contingência humana revela, para além dela mesma, a humanidade assentada nestes registros. Com a palavra ela encontra o destino de suas questões, ergue a ponte ser-ser na qual se encontram as singularidades do ser gente

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Herika Regiane Deziderio.pdf: 525671 bytes, checksum: 3312f9090b93ab286faeba6b06383d22 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-02 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The search for love relationships through chat rooms and it s feasible association to loneliness it s the purpose of this paper. The modern city life predicts by the means of concentrating people in huge buildings or by the ever-growing communication system, like the internet, a constant nearness between humans. However, despite the urban mass and the technical resources that allow greater people-to-people interactions, a forceful loss of relationship intimacy and affective and body isolation are present. This way, questions about the chat rooms and it s image of free friendship, love partnership and loneliness ending philosophy arouse. The fast typing words, the pattern of messages and the amount above the quality of the contacts are some of the free will restraining aspects to chat rooms haunters, giving them a fake feeling of freedom. Among the thousands of World Wide Web based love relations, one rarely overcomes the virtual ambience to be an actual encounter, leading us to discern a restrictive chat logic: the substitution of the pleasure by the pre-pleasure . Focused in obtain data about this study subject, two scales were built as a research instrument one for verify the search for love relationships through chat rooms and another to evaluate the chat room members loneliness those scales formed a questionnaire witch was presented to 60 persons in 20-30 years age ruled chat rooms. The results confirmed the association between loneliness and love relationship search in chat rooms. To support the analysis, we used some concepts of the critical theory of society, mainly the culture industry one, developed by Horkheimer and Adorno. The principles of shock , and the two types of Experience (Erlebnis the shallow experience and Erfahrung the profound experience) postulated by Benjamin and the freudian psychoanalysis were also used, the later in our debate about love. We concluded that the fugacity of the chat room based love relationships and the loneliness as observed on many users are also linked to objective aspects and not to a pure subjective condition / Este trabalho se propõe a investigar a possível associação entre a procura de relações amorosas por meio das salas de bate-papo disponíveis na Internet e a solidão. A vida citadina na atualidade prevê uma aproximação crescente entre as pessoas, seja por meio das grandiosas construções que concentram multidões, seja pela ampliação dos sistemas de comunicação, dentre os quais focalizamos a Internet. Entretanto, apesar dos aglomerados urbanos e dos diversos recursos técnicos que supõem uma integração desmedida entre os sujeitos, o que amplamente vigora é a ausência de intimidade entre os homens e a sua condição de isolamento corporal e afetivo. Do que decorre o questionamento sobre os chats, aos quais se vincula a imagem de liberdade para fazer amigos, encontrar parceiros amorosos e escapar da solidão. Observamos que a padronização dos contatos, o ritmo acelerado das palavras digitadas e a ênfase na quantidade de diálogos, em detrimento de seu conteúdo são apenas alguns dos aspectos que tolhem a espontaneidade dos freqüentadores e incidem na pseudoliberdade. Por sua vez, os milhares de contatos amorosos mediados por computadores conectados à Rede Mundial raramente extrapolam a virtualidade para se transformarem em encontros presenciais, o que nos permite verificar a lógica delimitadora dos chats: a substituição do prazer pelo pré-prazer. Com o propósito de levantar dados sobre o objeto deste estudo, elaboramos um instrumento de pesquisa composto por duas escalas uma para aferir a procura por relacionamentos amorosos nos chats e a outra para verificar a solidão dos freqüentadores desse aparato. As escalas foram apresentadas, sob a forma de questionário, a 60 sujeitos presentes em salas de bate-papo dirigidas à faixa etária de 20 a 30 anos. Os resultados confirmaram que a procura por relacionamentos amorosos nos chats está associada à solidão. Para fundamentarmos as análises, privilegiamos alguns conceitos da teoria crítica da sociedade, especialmente o de indústria cultural, desenvolvido por Horkheimer e Adorno, e as noções de vivência , experiência e choque postuladas por Benjamin. Recorremos, ainda, à psicanálise freudiana, essencialmente ao discorrer sobre o amor. Por fim, concluímos que a fugacidade dos relacionamentos amorosos efetuados nos chats e a solidão em muitos dos usuários se associam também a aspectos objetivos e não a uma condição puramente subjetiva

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:22:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudete Alves da Silva Souza.pdf: 976362 bytes, checksum: 18921bffb5b4f4643ad566f4de111980 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-29 / This work has as an aim to tackle the loneliness of the black woman in the affectivesexual dimension, having as a central axis her rejection while pretender to the marriage market by the partner of the same ethnicity. For the understanding of this phenomenon we looked for in the literature datas that could show this empirical fact starting from the socio-historical conception of this subject and the correlated implications. Thus, in addition to the Bibliographic research, the methodological line leds up qualitative technical piece, characterized by the focus group and by the analysis of the speech, allowing to know the representations of these women. The obtained datas with the devolution of 62 interview routes sent to 62 women guided the focus group realization. The datas analysis showed that women who joined the survey consider that there is a disadvantage situation of the black women compared to the white women regarding to the preference of the black men in the choice of the affective and conjugal partner. This situation affects more intensively on young black women, independent of the social class. The behavior of the black man was perceived as a result of a social devaluation of the black population from Brazil, from a long time ago, that is stimulating the young black men to seek "lighten" the family. The Inter-racial association was seen as beneficial to the black man, meaning its social climbing and very disadvantaged for the black woman, by the tendency observed between the inter-racials couples the couple black man-white woman as predominant. The participants believe that the exclusion of the black woman brings loneliness and humiliation. To face this situation, the group considered that the formal education is a rescue major factor of the black ethnic black, enabling the identification of a bigger number of people with thesevalues / Abordei neste trabalho a solidão da mulher negra na dimensão afetivo-sexual, tendo como eixo central seu preterimento, enquanto pretendente ao mercado matrimonia, pelo parceiro da mesma etnia. Para o entendimento de tal fenômeno procurei buscar na literatura dados que dessem conta dessa realidade empírica, partindo da concepção sócio-histórica desse sujeito e das implicações a ela correlacionadas. A linha metodológica utilizada foi a qualitativa, caracterizada pelo grupo focal e pela análise do discurso, permitindo conhecer as representações dessas mulheres. Os dados obtidos com a devolução de 62 roteiros de entrevista nortearam a realização do grupo focal, composto por 11 mulheres. A análise dos dados mostrou que os sujeitos consideram que existe uma situação de desvantagem da mulher negra em comparação com a mulher branca no que concerne à preferência do homem negro na escolha de parceira afetiva e conjugal. Esta situação repercute com mais intensidade nas jovens negras, independente da classe social. O comportamento do homem negro foi percebido como resultado de uma desvalorização social da população negra do Brasil, de longa data, que vem estimulando os jovens negros a procurar clarear a família. A associação inter-racial foi vista como vantajosa para o homem negro, no sentido da sua ascensão social, e muito desvantajosa para a mulher negra pela tendência observada da predominância de pares inter-raciais, quais sejam homem negro-mulher branca. As participantes consideram que o preterimento da mulher negra acarreta solidão e humilhação. Para enfrentar esta situação o grupo considerou que a educação formal é um fator importante de resgate dos valores étnicos da raça negra, possibilitando a identificação de maior número de indivíduos com estes valores

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:57:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudete Alves da Silva Souza.pdf: 976362 bytes, checksum: 18921bffb5b4f4643ad566f4de111980 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-29 / This work has as an aim to tackle the loneliness of the black woman in the affectivesexual dimension, having as a central axis her rejection while pretender to the marriage market by the partner of the same ethnicity. For the understanding of this phenomenon we looked for in the literature datas that could show this empirical fact starting from the socio-historical conception of this subject and the correlated implications. Thus, in addition to the Bibliographic research, the methodological line leds up qualitative technical piece, characterized by the focus group and by the analysis of the speech, allowing to know the representations of these women. The obtained datas with the devolution of 62 interview routes sent to 62 women guided the focus group realization. The datas analysis showed that women who joined the survey consider that there is a disadvantage situation of the black women compared to the white women regarding to the preference of the black men in the choice of the affective and conjugal partner. This situation affects more intensively on young black women, independent of the social class. The behavior of the black man was perceived as a result of a social devaluation of the black population from Brazil, from a long time ago, that is stimulating the young black men to seek "lighten" the family. The Inter-racial association was seen as beneficial to the black man, meaning its social climbing and very disadvantaged for the black woman, by the tendency observed between the inter-racials couples the couple black man-white woman as predominant. The participants believe that the exclusion of the black woman brings loneliness and humiliation. To face this situation, the group considered that the formal education is a rescue major factor of the black ethnic black, enabling the identification of a bigger number of people with thesevalues / Abordei neste trabalho a solidão da mulher negra na dimensão afetivo-sexual, tendo como eixo central seu preterimento, enquanto pretendente ao mercado matrimonia, pelo parceiro da mesma etnia. Para o entendimento de tal fenômeno procurei buscar na literatura dados que dessem conta dessa realidade empírica, partindo da concepção sócio-histórica desse sujeito e das implicações a ela correlacionadas. A linha metodológica utilizada foi a qualitativa, caracterizada pelo grupo focal e pela análise do discurso, permitindo conhecer as representações dessas mulheres. Os dados obtidos com a devolução de 62 roteiros de entrevista nortearam a realização do grupo focal, composto por 11 mulheres. A análise dos dados mostrou que os sujeitos consideram que existe uma situação de desvantagem da mulher negra em comparação com a mulher branca no que concerne à preferência do homem negro na escolha de parceira afetiva e conjugal. Esta situação repercute com mais intensidade nas jovens negras, independente da classe social. O comportamento do homem negro foi percebido como resultado de uma desvalorização social da população negra do Brasil, de longa data, que vem estimulando os jovens negros a procurar clarear a família. A associação inter-racial foi vista como vantajosa para o homem negro, no sentido da sua ascensão social, e muito desvantajosa para a mulher negra pela tendência observada da predominância de pares inter-raciais, quais sejam homem negro-mulher branca. As participantes consideram que o preterimento da mulher negra acarreta solidão e humilhação. Para enfrentar esta situação o grupo considerou que a educação formal é um fator importante de resgate dos valores étnicos da raça negra, possibilitando a identificação de maior número de indivíduos com estes valores

The purpose of this randomized control trial (RCT) was to investigate the effects of a story-sharing intervention on older adults transitioning to long-term care (LTC). The specific aims were (1) to determine the effects of story sharing on the health transition outcomes of depression and well-being of adults transitioning to LTC; and (2) to determine if the sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, level of education (LOE), months living at LTC facility, choice to move, and health problem(s) that may have resulted in the move) predict depression and/or well-being. Story sharing was defined as the respectful space where one tells and listens to stories of others (Heliker, 2009) while being guided by another (the investigator). Meleis’ middlerange theory of transitions (MMRTT) (Meleis et al., 2000) was used as a guide to understand the transitioning process. A convenience sampling design was used to recruit 100 participants from 11 LTC facilities in Broward County, located in Southeast Florida. The sample included adults, age 65 years and older, who were transitioning to a LTC facility within the past two years. Participants were randomly assigned to the control group (n = 52), who received standard care, or to the intervention group (n = 41), who received story-sharing and standard care. The results indicated there was no significant greater improvement to suggest an Intervention and Time effect for depression and/or well-being. Overall, predictive ability of the sociodemographic variables for depression and well-being were not statistically significant. However, LOE (junior college) did account for a significant portion of unique variance for increased depression, and time, marital status, ethnicity, LOE, and choice to move did account for a significant proportion of unique variance for well-being. Months living in LTC (more months) and marital status (all but divorced) were significant for improved well-being while ethnicity (Hispanic), LOE (high school and junior college), and choice to move (no choice) were significant for reduced well-being. Similar studies using a larger sample size, including non-English speaking participants; lengthier storysharing sessions; and measuring for pain, health, and bereavement may offer additional insights to healthy transition outcomes for this population. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection