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Premature social aging: the social-psychological consequences of a chronic illness.
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The consequences of premature social aging in Parkinsonism for patients' attitudes toward themselves and their outlook on life are examined.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1974-03-01. It has received 47 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Premature aging.read more
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Chronic illness as biographical disruption
TL;DR: The paper is based on semi-structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients and highlights the resources available to individuals, modes of explanation for pain and suffering, continuities and discontinuities between professional and lay thought, and sources of variation in experience.
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Correlates of subjective health in older adults: a meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The size of the association between subjective and objective health varied by the method of assessment of objective health, showing highest associations with symptom checklists and results of medical examinations due to strict protocols.
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Sudden illness and biographical flow in narratives of stroke recovery
TL;DR: A biographical flow more than a biographical disruption to specific chronic illnesses once certain social indicators such as age, other health concerns and previous knowledge of the illness experience, are taken into account.
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What lies behind the subjective evaluation of health status
TL;DR: Age and level of subjective health were associated with the way people compare their health to others, and the findings imply that each individual tries to find ways to evaluate his/her health in a more positive light.
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A patient-centred study of the consequences of stroke:
TL;DR: The findings suggest that many people with stroke would benefit from being able to talk about the changes which have occurred, and there is a need to reduce people's isolation after stroke by providing home visits after discharge, particularly to those living alone.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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Parkinsonism: Onset, progression, and mortality
Margaret M. Hoehn,Melvin D. Yahr +1 more
TL;DR: Controversy over the effectiveness of therapeutic measures for parkinsonism is due partially to this wide variability and to the paucity of clinical information about the natural history of the syndrome.
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The structure of psychological well-being
TL;DR: In the field of mental health, the split between hedgehogs and foxes roughly parallels that between theorists and empiricists as discussed by the authors, and the hedgehog's attempt to bridge that gap and pursue systematic data collection within the framework of a single unifying concept.