Attachment-focused integrative reminiscence with older African Americans: a randomized controlled intervention study

References

• American Psychological Association (APA). (2014). Health disparities and stress. Retrieved July 27, 2014, from http://www.apa.org/topics/health-disparities/stress.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Bacher, E., Kindler, S., Scheler, G., & Lerer, B. (1991). Reminiscing as a technique in the group psychotherapy of depression: A comparative study. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 30, 375–377.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baumeister, R., & Leary, M. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 497–529.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Birren, J., & Deutchman, D. (1991). Guiding autobiography groups for older adults: Exploring the fabric of life. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Blackburn-Munro, G., & Blackburn-Munro, R. (2001). Chronic pain, chronic stress and depression: Coincidence or consequence? Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 13, 1009–1023.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bohlmeijer, E., Kramer, J., Smit, F., Onrust, S., & Marwijk, H. (2009). The effects of integrative reminiscence on depressive symptomatology and mastery of older adults. Community Mental Health Journal, 45, 476–484.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bohlmeijer, E., Smit, F., & Cuijpers, P. (2003). Effects of reminiscence and life review on late-life depression: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18, 1088–1094.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bohlmeijer, E., Westerhof, G., & Emmerik-de Jong, M. (2008). The effects of integrative reminiscence on meaning in life: Results of a quasi-experimental study. Aging and Mental Health, 12, 639–646.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Attachment. New York: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and loss: Loss (Vol. 3). NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Bretherton, I., & Munholland, K. (1999). Internal working models in attachment relationships: A construct revisited. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 89–111). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, R. (1964). “The life review: An interpretation of reminiscence in the aged.” New thoughts on old age (pp. 265–280). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, R.N. (1963). The life review: An interpretation of reminiscence in the aged. Psychiatry, 26, 65–76.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cappeliez, P., & O'Rourke, N. (2006). Empirical validation of a model of reminiscence and health in later life. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61, 237–244.
   Google Scholar
• Chandola, T., Brunner, E., & Marmot, M. (2006). Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome: Prospective study. British Medical Journal, 332, 521–525.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chao, S.-Y., Liu, J.-Y., Wu C.-Y., Jin, S.-F., Chu, T.-L., Huang, T.-S., & Clark, M. (2006). The effects of group reminiscence therapy on depression, self-esteem, and life satisfaction of elderly nursing home residents. Journal of Nursing Research, 14, 36–44.
   Google Scholar
• Cohen, S., Kamarck, T. & Mermelstein, R. (1983). A global measure of perceived stress. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24, 385–396.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coleman, P., Hautamaki, A., & Podolskij, A. (2002). Trauma, reconciliation, and generativity: The stories told by European war veterans. In J. Webster & B. Haight (Eds.), Critical advances in reminiscence work (pp. 218–232). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company
   Google Scholar
• Collins, N & Feeney, B. (2000). A safe haven: An attachment theory perspective on support-seeking and care-giving in intimate relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 1053–1073.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• deCastro, A., Gee, G., & Takeuchi, D. (2008). Workplace discrimination and health among Filipinos in the US. American Journal of Public Health, 98, 520–526. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2007.110163
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Djuric, Z., Bird, C., Furumoto-Dawson, A., Rasuscher, G., Ruffin, M., Stowe, R., … Masi, C. (2008). Biomarkers of psychological stress in health disparities research. Open Biomark Journal, 1, 7–19.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Donnelly, D.A., & Murray, E.J. (1991). Cognitive and emotional changes in written essays and therapy interviews. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 10, 334–350.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Erikson, E. (1963). Childhood and society. New York, NY: W.W. Norton
   Google Scholar
• Eriksson, M., & Lindstrom, B. (2005). Validity of Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale: A systematic review. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 59, 460–466.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Esterling, B.A., L'Abate, L., Murray, E.J., & Pennebaker, J.W. (1999). Empirical foundations for writing in prevention and psychotherapy: Mental and physical health outcomes. Clinical Psychology Review, 19, 79–96. doi:10.1016/S0272-7358(98)00015-4
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frattaroli, J. (2006). Experimental disclosure and its moderators: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132(6), 823–865.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fry, P. (1993). Mediation of depression in community-based elders. In P. Cappeliez & R. Flynn (Eds.), Depression and the social environment: Research and intervention with neglected populations (pp. 369–394). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fry, P., & Barker, L. (2002). Female survivors of abuse and violence: The influence of storytelling reminiscence on perceptions of self-efficacy, ego-strength, and self-esteem. In J. Webster & B. Haight (Eds.), Critical advances in reminiscence work (pp. 197–217). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
   Google Scholar
• Gibson, F. (2004). The past in the present: Using reminiscence in health and social care. Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
   Google Scholar
• Guyll, M., Matthews, K., & Bromberger, J. (2001). Discrimination and unfair treatment: Relationship to cardiovascular reactivity among African American and European American women. Health Psychology, 20, 315–325. doi:10.1037/0278-6133.20.5.315
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Haight, B. (1992). Long-term effects of a structured life review process. Journal of Gerontology, 47, 312–315. doi:10.1093/geronj/47.5.P312
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Haight, B., & Dias, J. (1992). Examining key variables in selected reminiscing modalities. International Psychogeriatrics, 4(2), 279–290.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Haight, B., & Haight, B. (2007). The handbook of structured life review. Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
   Google Scholar
• Haight, B., & Hendrix, S. (1995). An integrated review of reminiscence. In B.K. Haight & J.D. Webster (Eds.), The art and science of reminiscing: Theory, research, methods, and applications (pp. 3–21). Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.
   Google Scholar
• Haight, B., Michel, Y., & Hendrix, S. (1998). Life review: Preventing despair in newly relocated nursing home residents short- and long-term effects. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 47, 119–142.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hearn, S., Saulnier, G., Strayer, J., Glenham, M., Koopman, R., & Marcia, J. (2012). Between integrity and despair: Toward construct validation of Erikson's eighth stage. Journal of Adult Development, 19, 1–20.
   Google Scholar
• Hesse, E. (2008). The adult attachment interview: Protocol, method of analysis, and empirical studies. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (2nd ed.), (pp. 552–598). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Howes, C. (1999). Attachment relationships in the context of multiple caregivers. In Cassidy, J. & Shaver, P.R. (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 671–687). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jackson, J. (1993). African American experiences through the adult years. In R. Kastenbaum (Ed.), The encyclopedia of adult development (pp. 18–26). Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kegan, R. (1982). The evolving self: Problem and process in human development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jackson, J., Brown, T.N., Williams, D.R., Torres, M., Sellers, S.L., & Brown, K. (1996). Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48106-1248, USA. Ethnicity & Disease, 6, 132–147.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Jackson, J., Knight, K., & Rafferty, J. (2010). Race and unhealthy behaviors: Chronic stress, the HPA axis, and physical and mental health disparities over the life course. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 933–939. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.143446
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kegan, R. (1982). The evolving self: Problem and process in human development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kenward, M.G., & Roger, J.H. (1997). Small sample inference for fixed effects from restricted maximum likelihood. Biometrics, 53, 983–997.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Korte, J., Bohlmeijer, E.T., Cappeliez, F., Smit, F., & Westerhof, G.J. (2012). Life review therapy for older adults with moderate depressive symptomatology: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 42(6), 1163–1173.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Korte, J., Westerhof, G.J., & Bohlmeijer, E.T. (2012). Mediating processes in an effective life review intervention. Psychology and Aging, 27(4), 1172–1181.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kotler, T., Buzwell, S., & Romeo, Y. (1994). Avoidant attachment as a risk factor for health. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 67(3), 237–245. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8341.1994.tb01793.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lamer, S., Bohlmeijer, E., Korte, J., & Westerhof, G. (2015). The efficacy of life-review as online-guided self-help for adults: A randomized trial. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 70, 24–34.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leary, J. (2005). Post-traumatic slave syndrome. Milwaukee, OR: Uptone Press.
   Google Scholar
• Loevinger, J. (1976). Ego development. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
   Google Scholar
• Lundberg, O., & Manderbacka, K. (1996). Assessing reliability of a measure of self-rated health. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 24(3), 218–224.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Magai, C., Cohen, C., Milburn, N., Thorpe, B., McPherson, R., & Piralta, D. (2001). Attachment styles in older European American and African American adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 56(1), S28–S35.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Main, M., Kaplan, N., & Cassidy, J. (1985). Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50, 66–104.
   Google Scholar
• Main, M., Hesse, E. & Goldwyn, R. (2008). Studying differences in language usage in recounting attachment history: An introduction to the AAI. In H. Steele & M. Steele (Eds.), Clinical applications of the adult attachment interview (pp. 31–68). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Marmot, M., Bosma, H., Hemingway, H., Brunner, E., & Stansfeld, S. (1997). Contribution and other risk factors to social variations in coronary heart disease. Lancet, 350, 235–240.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maslow, A. (1954). Motivation and personality. New York: Harper & Row.
   Google Scholar
• Maunder, R.G., & Hunter, J.J. (2001). Attachment and psychosomatic medicine: Developmental contributions to stress and disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, 63(4), 556–567.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miller, A. (1981). Drama of the gifted child. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Miller, A. (1996). Drama of the gifted child: The search for the true self. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Milulincer, M., Florian, V., & Hirschberger, G. 2003. The existential function of close relationships: Introducing death into the science of love. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 7, 20–40.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mirowski, J. (1997). Age, sugjective life expectancy, and the sense of control: The horizon hypothesis. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 52B, S125–S134.
   Google Scholar
• Mohr, D., Spring, B., Freedland, K., Beckner, V., Arean, P., Hollon, S., … Kaplan, R. (2009). The selection and design of control conditions for randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 78, 275–284.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Molinari, V., Cully, J., Kendjelic, E., & Kunik, M. (2001). Reminiscence and its relationship to attachment and personality in geropsychiatric patients. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 52, 173–184.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Molinari, V., & Reichlin, R. (1984). Life review reminiscence in the elderly: A review of the literature. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 20, 81–92.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Neimeyer, R. & Levitt, H. (2001). Coping and coherence: A narrative perspective. In D. Snyder (Ed.), Stress and coping (pp. 47–67). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Niederhoffer, K., & Pennebaker, J. (2002). Sharing one's story: On the benefits of writing or talking about emotional experience. In C. Snyder & S. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 573–583). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Nygren, B., Alex, L., Jonsen, E., Gustafson, Y., Norberg, A., & Lundman, B. (2005). Resilience, sense of coherence, purpose in life and self-transcendence in relation to perceived physical and mental health among the oldest old. Aging and Mental Health, 9, 354–362.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ogawa, J., Sroufe, L., Weinfeld, N., Carlson, E., & Egeland, B. (1997). Development and the fragmented self: Longitudinal study of dissociative symptomatology in a nonclinical sample. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 855–879.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pearson, J., Cohn, D., Cowan, P., & Cowan, P. (1994). Earned- and continuous-security in adult attachment: Relation to depressive symptomatology and parenting style. Development and Psychopathology, 6, 359–373.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peek, M., Wagner, J., Tang, H., & Bakr, D. (2011). Self-reported racial discrimination in health care and diabetes outcomes. Medical Care, 49, 618–625. doi:10.1097/MLR.0b013e318215d925
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pennebake, J. & Chung, C. (2007). Expressive writing, emotional upheavals, and health. In Riverside, H. & Cohen, R. (Eds.), Foundations of health psychology (pp. 263–284). New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pennebaker, J.W., & Beall, S.K. (1986). Confronting a traumatic event: Toward an understanding of inhibition and disease. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 95, 274–281.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pennebaker, J.W., Colder, M., & Sharp, L.K. (1990). Accelerating the coping process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 528–537.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pietromonaco, P. & Barrett, L. (2000). The internal working models concept: What do we really know about the self in relation to others? Review of General Psychology, 4, 155–175.
   Google Scholar
• Pinn, V. (2000). Recruiting older women and minority members into clinical trials: An important goal for researchers. Journal of Mental Health and Aging, 6, 21–25.
   Google Scholar
• Radloff, L.S. (1977). The CES-D Scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement, 1, 385–401. doi:10.1177/014662167700100306
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Romaniuk, M. & Romaniuk, J. (1981). Looking back: An analysis of reminiscence functions and triggers. Experimental Aging Research, 7, 315–336.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rooks R., & Whitfield K. (2004). Health disparities among older African Americans: Past, present, and future perspectives. In K. Whitfield (Ed.), Closing the gap (pp. 45–54). Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America.
   Google Scholar
• Ryff, C.D., & Keyes, C.L.M. (1995). The structure of psychological well-being revisited. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69 (4), 719–727. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.69.4.719
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sabir, M. (2014a). Effectance motivation: A practical outcome of attachment narrative review. International Journal of Reminiscence and Life Review, 2, 16–30.
   Google Scholar
• Sabir, M., & Pillemer, K. (2014). An intensely sympathetic awareness: Experiential similarity and cultural norms as means for gaining older African Americans' trust of scientific research. Journal of Aging Studies, 29, 142–149.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schwarzer, R., & Jerusalem, M. (1995). Generalized self-efficacy scale. In J. Weinman, S. Wright, & M. Johnston (Eds.), Measures in health psychology: A user's portfolio. Causal and control beliefs (pp. 35–37). Windsor, UK: NFER-NELSON.
   Google Scholar
• Seaward, B. (2000). Stress and human spirituality 2000: At the Cross Roads of Physics and Metaphysics. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 25, 241–246. doi:10.1023/A:1026458905835
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Segal, D.L., & Murray, E.J. (1994). Emotional processing in cognitive therapy and vocal expression of feeling. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 13, 189–206.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shellman, J.M., Mokel, M., & Hewitt, N. (2009). The effects of integrative reminiscence on depressive symptoms in older African Americans. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 31, 772–786. doi:10.1177/0193945909335863
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Siegel, D. (2010). The mindful therapist: A clinician's guide to mindsight and neural integration. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
   Google Scholar
• Siegel, D. (2012). The developing mind. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Siegel, D.J. (2001). Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: Attachment relationships, “mindsight,” and neural integration. Infant Mental Health Journal, 22, 67–94. doi:10.1002/1097-0355(200101/04)22:13.0.CO;2-G
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smyth, J.M. (1998). Written emotional expression: Effect sizes, outcome types, and moderating variables. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 174–184. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.66.1.174
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sroufe, L., & Waters, E. (1977). Attachment as an organizational construct. Child Development, 48, 1184–1199.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stanton, A.L., Danoff-Burg, S., Sworowski, L.A., Collins, C.A., Branstetter, A.D., Rodriquez-Hanley, A., … Austenfeld, J.L. (2002). Randomized controlled trial of written emotional expression and benefit finding in breast cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 20, 4160–4168.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stevens-Ratchford, R. (1993). The effect of life review reminiscence activities on depression and self-esteem in older adults. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 47, 413–420.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sullivan, H. (1953). The interpersonal theory of psychiatry. New York: Norton.
   Google Scholar
• Suttie, I. (1952). The origins of love and hate. NY: Julian Press.
   Google Scholar
• Trevarthen, C. (2004). Intimate contact from birth: How we know one another by touch, voice, and expression in movement. In Touch: Attachment and the body. The John Bowlby Memorial Conference monograph. London: Karnac Books.
   Google Scholar
• Watt, L., & Cappeliez, P. (1995). Reminiscence interventions for the treatment of depression in older adults. In B.K. Haight & J.D. Webster (Eds.), The art and science of reminiscing: Theory, research, methods, and applications (pp. 221–232)Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis.
   Google Scholar
• Watt, L.M., & Cappeliez, P. (2000). Integrative and instrumental reminiscence therapies for depression in older adults: Intervention strategies and treatment effectiveness. Aging and Mental Health, 4, 166–177. doi:10.1080/13607860050008691
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Webber, T. (1978). Deep like the rivers: Education in the slave quarter community 1831-1865. New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
   Google Scholar
• White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA). (2014). Retrieved August 17, 2014, from http://www.ccoa.ca.gov/res/docs/WHCoATop10Resolutions.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Williams, D., & Neighbors, H. (2001). Racism, discrimination, and hypertension: Evidence and needed research. Ethnicity and Disease, 11, 800–816.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Williams, D.R., & Mohammad, S.A. (2009). Discrimination and racial disparities in health: Evidence and needed research. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 32, 20–47. doi:10.1007/s10865-008-9185-0
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wink, P. & Schiff, B. (2002). To review or not to review? The role of personality and life events in life review and adaptation to older age. In J.D. Webster and B.K. Haight (Eds.), Critical Advances in reminiscence work: From theory to application (pp. 44–60). New York: Springer-Verlag.
   Google Scholar
• Wolinsky, F., Wyrich, K., Babu, A., Kroenke, K., & Tierney, W. (2003). Age, aging, and the sense of control among older adults: A longitudinal reconsideration. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 58Bm, S212–S220.
   Google Scholar
• Wong, P.T., & Watt, L.M. (1991). What types of reminiscence are associated with successful aging? Psychology and Aging, 6, 272–279. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.6.2.272
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar