Women's mid-life experience: an evolving consciousness of self and children.
This paper describes a hermeneutical and phenomenological research study of the mid-life spiritual experience of 10 women who are members of the United Church of Canada. Based on in-depth, face-to-face interviews, the paper describes the first of two simultaneous and interrelated experiences: an evolving consciousness of self and children. The five invariant themes that emerge point to a need for an expanded framework of human development that takes fuller account of women's experience and spirituality.
Faculty of Nursing, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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D000328:Adult; D003243:Consciousness; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*