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. 1997 Sep-Oct;18(5):439-53.
doi: 10.1080/07399339709516299.

Women's images of midlife: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study

N F Woods  1 , E S Mitchell
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Women's images of midlife: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study

N F Woods et al. Health Care Women Int. 1997 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Our purpose in conducting this study was to determine how a cohort of women born between 1935 and 1955 defined midlife, and what midlife events they viewed as important, distressing, and satisfying. A random sample of women enrolled in the Seattle Midlife Women's Health Study (n = 131) participated in a telephone interview about the meaning of midlife and important events occurring during the past year. They described midlife similarly to women from earlier birth cohorts with one important exception: the centrality of work and personal achievements in their lives. Contemporary midlife women's views of midlife reflect their roles in society.

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