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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 8035 Negotiating Midlife: Exploring the Subjective Experience of Ageing, 2006-2008 803510.5255/UKDA-SN-8035-1 Morgan-Brett, B., University of East London Copyright B. Morgan Brett Economic and Social Research Council UK Data Service 16 August 2016 LIFE CYCLEAGEINGADULTSGENERATIONS (AGE)MATURITYFAMILIESEMPLOYMENTEDUCATIONSOCIOLOGY OF THE BODYSOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYPSYCHOANALYSISBEREAVEMENTSOCIOLOGY Family life and marriageSocial behaviour and attitudesElderlyReligion and valuesSocial and occupational mobilityGeneral health and well-being Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. This project explored the subjective experience of ageing with a particular focus on midlife. It argues that midlife signifies an important phase of transition in the life course, which is often characterised by essential changes in personal circumstances. Although many of these changes are anticipated, their impact can still come as a surprise, reawakening old psychological threats and anxieties as well as creating new ones. The death of parents, children leaving home, changes at work and an awareness of an ageing body: these changes are usually anticipated at a practical level but can create a sense of emotional instability and insecurity. The three central themes of this project include the way the ageing process is experienced physically and how this in turn, effects the individual psychologically, the way personal and family relationships change during this period and the impact this has and finally how people evaluate their lives and compare this evaluation to their imagined sense of what they thought their lives would be like. The project highlights how the social experiences and cultural expectations, which influence attitudes and pragmatic reactions to ageing are necessarily intertwined with unconscious psychic processes, conflicts and ambivalence. The sample includes twenty-two men and women aged between thirty-nine and fifty-eight years old using a psychosocial interviewing approach. This method focuses on how individuals emotionally and psychically deal with age-related changes. The project concludes that midlife is a time of complex emotional and psychical conflict, which is triggered and challenged through a culmination of natural and anticipated losses. In order for people to negotiate midlife and move forward in a positive and productive way they must first acknowledge and then accept the natural losses and disappointments that life inevitably brings. 2006 - 200801 January 200601 January 2008 United Kingdom IndividualsNational 22 British Born Men and Women aged between 39-58 years old Text Cross-sectional (one-time) study Purposive selection/case studiesVolunteer sampleConvenience sampleSnowballing. Followed a criteria of ensuring equal numbers of men and women Face-to-face interview The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>. See <restrctn> https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 8035 2024-11-28T07:31:12Z ddi:codebook:2_5