TY - JOUR
T1 - Quilting as a generative activity
T2 - Studying those who make quilts for wounded service members
AU - Cheek, Cheryl
AU - Yaure, Robin G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/1/2
Y1 - 2017/1/2
N2 - A qualitative study of 24 quilters examined their experiences creating and delivering quilts to wounded service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Using Erikson’s (1963) perspective on generativity and Baumeister and Vohs’s (2002) theory of motivation as theoretical frameworks, along with McCracken’s (1988) five-step analysis model, we looked at the part motivation played in this process. The results were that respondents wanted to supply quilts in response to their own family histories of military involvement, to support friends/acquaintances with family in the military, and to make a difference to those who seemed young and badly wounded. Some respondents described being affected by the reactions of quilt recipients and of healing from their own traumas and grief.
AB - A qualitative study of 24 quilters examined their experiences creating and delivering quilts to wounded service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Using Erikson’s (1963) perspective on generativity and Baumeister and Vohs’s (2002) theory of motivation as theoretical frameworks, along with McCracken’s (1988) five-step analysis model, we looked at the part motivation played in this process. The results were that respondents wanted to supply quilts in response to their own family histories of military involvement, to support friends/acquaintances with family in the military, and to make a difference to those who seemed young and badly wounded. Some respondents described being affected by the reactions of quilt recipients and of healing from their own traumas and grief.
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U2 - 10.1080/08952841.2015.1021652
DO - 10.1080/08952841.2015.1021652
M3 - Article
C2 - 27399606
AN - SCOPUS:84978080315
SN - 0895-2841
VL - 29
SP - 39
EP - 50
JO - Journal of Women and Aging
JF - Journal of Women and Aging
IS - 1
ER -