title: Understanding homeless adults by testing the theory of self-care.
abstract: This article explicates, within a sample of homeless adults, the relationship between self-care agency, self-care, and well-being, while controlling for select basic conditioning factors. Self-care is found to explain 30% of the variance in current well-being. Self-esteem and affect balance, along with the power components of self-care agency, are found to explain 25% of the variance in self-care and, together with select basic conditioning factors, to explain 54% of its variance. Affect is proposed as an energy disposition, a dimension of self-care agency. Recommendations are made to strengthen the homeless individual's self-care agency.
authors.affiliation: Acute and Long-Term Care Nursing Department, Medical College of Ohio School of Nursing, Toledo, USA.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009742:Nursing Theory; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012648:Self Care; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States