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Personal resource systems define the quality of daily living, shaping personal well-being, societal satisfaction and overall quality of life. This study explores the construct of such systems through the emerging concept of Personal Resource Systems Management (PRSM) and models that concept for future research, consideration and debate. It is a qualitative exercise in grounded theory, a demonstration of integrative, interdisciplinary scholarship and a contribution to interactive practice in resource management, a subject matter specialty of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). As such the proposed PRSM model advances the stated goal of FCS practice to "promote optimal well-being of families, individuals and communities." Specifically, a PRSM model within the context of FCS should.

• describe person-environment interaction
• as well as aggregates thereof (family and community) and
• identify diverse daily impacts on the quality of living, personal well-being, societal satisfaction and overall quality of life
• by modeling a consistent system of multiple options, each with a clear solution

Twenty-three existing models appearing in resource management texts between 1975 and 1996 were evaluated for the ability to adequately support these assumptions, using the Liebert and Spiegler framework for evaluation of theory. Though most models provided partial support, no existing models fully fit the adopted criteria. Traditional resource management concepts were therefore adapted and extended using interdisciplinary findings to model the Personal Resource Systems Management (PRSM) concept.

CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF TABLES
I. INTRODUCTION

Justification for Research
The Importance of Personal Well-being
The Importance of the Family
Community Concerns
Summary and Prieview

II. BACKGROUND FOR STUDY

Family and Consumer Sciences
Resource Management
Customary Practice
Instrumental Practice
Reflective Practice
Interactive Practice
Summary

III. METHODOLOGY

Why Uses Qualitative Research Methods?
Qualitative Method
Methodology in this Study
The Research Question
Entering the Field
Data Collection
Analysis of Existing Theory
Summary

IV. FINDINGS FROM THE LITERATURE

Structural Models in Resource Management 1975-1996
Functional Models in Resource Management 1975-1996
Miscellaneous Aspect Models 1975-1996
Summary
Comparison of Structural Models
Comparison of Functional Models
Resource Relationships In Resource Management
Time/Space Considerations in Resource Management

V. CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT

Interactive Practice
The Personal Resource System
Extending Descriptive and Predictive Power
The Structural Model: McNeil’s Toroidal Systemology
The Functional Model: Herbst’s Co-Genetic Logic
Resource Relationsips: Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow
Time/Space Considerations: Efficacy-Performance Spirals
Summary

VI. THE NEXT STEP

Interactive Practice in PRSM: Systems with Infinite Solutions
PRSM Structure
Person-Environment Transactions
Toroidal Organization
PRSM Persons
PRSM Environments

PRSM Function

Dialectical Personal Systems
Changing Personal Systems

PRSM Resources

Consistent Independent Systems
Delivering Well-being

PRSM Time/Space
Summary

VII. IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

Perfecting the Concept
Credibility
Utility

Extending the Concept

Matrix Organization
Life-long Learning
Scenario Planning

Empirical Testing

VIII. REFERENCES
IX. VITA

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