title: Toward development of a middle-range theory of psychological adaptation in death and dying.
abstract: This paper presents a middle-range theory of psychological adaptation in death and dying that was abstracted from a series of quantitative and qualitative studies. The findings from these studies are described, a conceptual definition for end-of-life psychological adaptation is given, evidence is synthesized into a limited number of assumptions, testable hypotheses are derived, and the constructed middle-range theory is linked to the conceptual-theoretical framework of the Roy adaptation model.
authors: University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, USA.
authors: Marjorie C
authors: MC
authors: Dobratz
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009742:Nursing Theory; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*