Table 2.

Frequencies, Percentages, and Chi-Square Significance Values of Content Codes for Life Changes in Each Domain

Domain	Content Codes	Middle-aged		Older		χ2
		No.	%	No.	%
Goals/Priorities	Change in career	17	53	4	6	27.89***
	Change in leisure	14	44	43	66	4.44*
	Higher priority on vision-related health	6	19	1	2	9.49**
	Basic functioning/self-preservation more important	8	25	8	12	2.51
	Material things/appearance less important	7	22	6	9	2.95
	Higher priority on family life	4	13	1	2	5.27*
	Focus on learning ways to adjust	5	16	15	23	.73
	Focus on helping others	3	9	2	3	1.74
Self-views	Realize loss of independence	16	50	27	47	.10
	Diminished self-worth	16	50	16	28	4.52*
	Learn to accept vision problem	8	25	7	12	2.48
	Appreciate life more	5	16	4	7	1.75
	Feel more vulnerable	7	22	4	7	4.31*
	Realize inner strength	3	9	3	5	.59
	More compassionate/sensitive	1	3	2	3	.01
	Increased self-worth	3	9	5	9	.01
	Heightened sense of aging/mortality	0	0	8	14	4.84*
Worldviews	Realize people’s ignorance	5	33	2	10	3.17+
	World is cruel/unfair/dangerous	5	33	3	14	1.84
	More compassionate/aware worldview	3	20	9	43	2.06
	Disconnect from/disinterest in world	4	27	6	29	.02
	Realize good in people	3	20	2	10	1.84
Relationships	Reestablish ways with people	20	56	33	61	.05
	More dependent on others	15	44	14	26	3.13+
	Appreciate/better understand others	8	24	7	13	1.65
	Changed family/social role	4	12	3	6	1.10
	Less social due to mobility issues	2	6	5	9	.33

Note.

⁺p < .10;

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001; df = 1.