Life Lived Well: A Description of Wellness across the Lifespan of a Senior Woman

Authors

Whitney L. Jarnagin, Walters State Community CollegeFollow
Marianne Woodside, University of Tennessee

Abstract

The concept of wellness provides a positive view of life development that can support psychological support and counseling. There is little in the literature about wellness and seniors, especially women. This study describes one senior woman’s wellness across the life span by addressing two research questions: (a) What are the experiences of one woman’s wellness across the life span as analyzed through the lens of the Indivisible Self (Myers & Sweeney, 2004, 2005) model of wellness; and (b) What experiences does one woman describe related to the model’s second order factors: the Creative Self; the Coping Self; the Social Self; the Essential Self; and the Physical Self? We used an oral history method to gather the narrative and analyzed her narrative using the Indivisible Self model of wellness. Findings include a descriptive picture of wellness for this woman as it relates to the Second Order factors of the Indivisible Self model.

Keywords

Wellness, Woman, Qualitative Research, Oral History

Publication Date

9-3-2012

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1734

Recommended APA Citation

Jarnagin, W. L., & Woodside, M. (2012). Life Lived Well: A Description of Wellness across the Lifespan of a Senior Woman. The Qualitative Report, 17(36), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1734