title: Creating the self: exploring the life journey of late-midlife women.
abstract: Studies on aging reflect the losses inherent in the aging process. How the aging process is viewed, either as a loss or as a natural process of living, may affect the adaptation by late-midlife women to life changes. Self-transcendence is a means of broadening one's perspective of the inner being. This article explores the meaning of life transitions, the role of life-course development, self-transcendence, and creativity in the evolution of the inner being as women age.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1029, USA. cmwiggs@utmb.edu
authors.forename: Carol M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Wiggs
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D012649:Self Concept