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Resilience in Adult Women Who Experienced Early Mother Loss

Schmitz-Binnall, Elizabeth
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-3229
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1612283099761066

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2021, Psy. D., Antioch University, Antioch Seattle: Clinical Psychology.
The primary purpose of this dissertation study was to explore levels of resilience in adult women whose mothers died when the participants were children. The death of a mother during an individual’s childhood is an adverse event that can affect all areas of that person’s life. It is intuitive to believe that early mother death would cause long-term effects on the overall resilience levels of the individuals; however, there has been minimal research exploring resilience in this population. With a sample of 245 women throughout the United States, this study used the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 25 (CD-RISC-25) to begin investigating resilience in adult women who experienced childhood mother loss. The results of this study showed significant lower resilience mean scores for the mother-loss group when compared to the general population group. Furthermore, within-group differences were found when examining current age and resilience scores, with older women indicating slightly higher resilience scores than younger women. No statistically significant differences were found when comparing mean resilience scores for age at time of loss or length of time since loss.
Dana Waters, PsyD, ABPP (Committee Chair)
William Heusler, PsyD (Committee Member)
Tasmyn Bowes, PsyD (Committee Member)
87 p.
Behavioral Sciences; Behaviorial Sciences; Clinical Psychology; Psychology; Quantitative Psychology
CD-RISC; resilience; mother loss; mother death; childhood mother loss; childhood mother death; death of mother; parental death; parental loss; childhood parental death; quantitative study; adult women

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  • Schmitz-Binnall, E. (2021). Resilience in Adult Women Who Experienced Early Mother Loss [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1612283099761066

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schmitz-Binnall, Elizabeth. Resilience in Adult Women Who Experienced Early Mother Loss. 2021. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1612283099761066.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schmitz-Binnall, Elizabeth. "Resilience in Adult Women Who Experienced Early Mother Loss." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1612283099761066

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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