DETERMINANTS OF PERSONAL MATURITY IN OLDER AGES

Bulletin of Kemerovo State University ◽

10.21603/2078-8975-2016-2-140-145 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 140-145

Author(s):

E. L. Kholodtseva ◽

A. G. Рortnova

Keyword(s):

Old Age ◽

Older Men ◽

Personality Characteristics ◽

Sex Characteristics ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Social Activities ◽

Men And Women ◽

Older Men And Women

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the problem of personal maturity in old age in the context of active ageing and self-realization. The existence of the correlation between activity in old age and personality characteristics of maturity is proved. The authors describe the characteristics of personal maturity in older men and women. Determinants of personal maturity in later older are both age-sex characteristics and parameters of the personal and social activities.

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8. An “Active Ageing” Approach to Living Alone: Older Men and Women Living in Rental Flats in Singapore

Gender and Ageing ◽

10.1355/9789814517980-011 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 198-220

Keyword(s):

Older Men ◽

Living Alone ◽

Active Ageing ◽

Men And Women ◽

Older Men And Women

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Gender Socialization at Senior Age

Social Psychology and Society ◽

10.17759/sps.2020110302 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 22-34

Author(s):

I.S. Kletsina

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Old Age ◽

Informal Education ◽

Gender Norms ◽

Gender Socialization ◽

Well Being ◽

Older Men ◽

Female Behavior ◽

Men And Women ◽

Older Men And Women

Objective. The study aims to identify and describe the content of gender phenomena that characterize the socialization of older men and women. Background. A noticeable increase in the number of people in the older age group actualizes the problem of studying the conditions and factors of the socialization process in old age, contributing to successful aging. A number of publications present the results of studies on the influence of some socio-psychological factors affecting the well-being of older people, for example, such as: informal education, socially significant and creative activities, certain personal characteristics, etc. However, studies of the life situation of older people, as a rule, do not include gender analysis, and such a significant socio-cultural factor for the socialization of men and women, as adherence to traditionalist or egalitarian gender norms, was not considered by researchers in relation to elderly people. Methodology. A gender approach was used as the main research methodology. Conclusions. The specifics of gender norms is revealed as a significant sociocultural factor in the socialization of males and females. The differences between the traditionalist normative model of male and female behavior from the egalitarian model are shown. The content of gender phenomena which are manifested in older men and women showing a strong commitment to traditional gender norms, is disclosed — such as double standard of aging, gender role conflict, gender self-objectification, existential-gender conflict. The relationship between the orientations of men and women towards a certain type of gender norms and their subjective psychological well-being in old age is revealed. The directions of further research on the gender socialization of the elderly are outlined.

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The Case of Thematic Tests Adapted to Older Adults

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000015 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 46-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Benoît Verdon

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Older Persons ◽

Older Men ◽

Elderly Persons ◽

Mental Processes ◽

Men And Women ◽

Projective Tests ◽

New Material ◽

Older Men And Women ◽

Latent Content

Since the 1950s, the growing interest of clinicians in using projective tests to study normal or pathological aging processes has led to the creation of several thematic tests for older adults. This development reflects their authors’ belief that the TAT is not suitable to the concerns and anxieties of elderly persons. The new material thus refers explicitly to situations related to age; it aims to enable older persons to express needs they cannot verbalize during consultations. The psychodynamic approach to thematic testing is based on the differentiation between the pictures’ manifest and latent content, eliciting responses linked to mental processes and issues the respondent is unaware of. The cards do not necessarily have to show aging characters to elicit identification: The situations shown in the pictures are linked to loss, rivalry, helplessness, and renunciation, all issues elderly respondents can identify with and that lead them to express their mental fragilities and resources. The article first explains the principles underlying four of these thematic tests, then develops several examples of stories told for card 3BM of the TAT, thus showing the effectiveness of this tool for the understanding and differentiation of loss-related issues facing older men and women.

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Clyde Warrior, 1939–1968

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v2i1.63 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tiffany Hale

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Older Men ◽

The United States ◽

Men And Women ◽

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ◽

Political Struggles ◽

Poor People's Campaign ◽

Organizational Leader ◽

Martin Luther King ◽

Older Men And Women

To identify Clyde Warrior as an intellectual subverts prevailing notions of intellectualism. We often think of intellectuals as older men and women whose major contributions are revealed late in life, once the passions of youth have been tempered by experience. Warrior was not this. People frequently imagine intellectuals as existing in isolation, insulated from the demands of regular folk. Warrior was not this either. He was a Ponca, born on the reservation and raised with the influence of his grandparents and community. He was also a renowned singer and powwow fancy dancer, as well as a college student, an organizational leader, a husband, and father of two daughters. Warrior’s political consciousness grew out of the deep connections he maintained to his rural Ponca roots, but he took care to educate himself about the problems affecting Native Americans across the United States as well as colonized peoples globally. As an Oklahoman, he was attuned to race relations in the South and empathized with the struggles of Africans and African Americans. His approach to indigenous political struggles was shaped and informed, for example, by his early and active participation with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.

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