Editor's Note: The following research article adeptly highlights the considerations which
influence the effects of multiple roles on women's mental health. It ident $ es factors viewed …

Presents an overview of research on effects of multiple gender-role stress on women's
mental health. Multiple roles are associated with competing demands that can lead to role …

Despite the presence of a body of Blackfeminist literature, the growing body of nursing
literature on feminism and the feminist approach to research remains narrowly focused on …

This article reviews the literature regarding women with cardiac disease to identify factors
that impact their self-definition and rehabilitation. Research suggests that women have …

An examination of the history of mental illness and its treatment over the centuries reveals
that the mentally ill have few advocates except each other and that their treatment has …

The lifetime probability that a woman will develop coronary artery disease (CAD) is 46%.
Hormonal changes, resulting in a shift in the ratio of the protective high density lipoproteins …

This article addresses the development and initial testing of an instrument to measure
individuals' capabilities to perform mental health related self-care. A two-step process of …

Approximately 30% of Americans are overweight (Abraham, 1983). Moreover, overweight
and obesity are more prevalent among women, particularly women of lower socioeconomic …

This study identified the individual characteristics that are expected to predict and explain
role strain in registered nurses (IU1Is) returning to school. A model was developed and …

The author interviewed 22 women who had been clinically depressed and were in the
recovery stage, as evidenced by their self-evaluations and scores on the Beck Depression …