Title

Toward Development of a Middle-Range Theory of Psychological Adaptation in Death and Dying

Publication Date

10-1-2011

Document Type

Article

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.

Publication Title

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volume

24

Issue

4

First Page

370

Last Page

376

DOI

10.1177/0894318411419212

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