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Improving life satisfaction of elder...

Ligon, Mary Byers.

Improving life satisfaction of elders through oral history: The narrator's perspective.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	Improving life satisfaction of elders through oral history: The narrator's perspective./
作者:	Ligon, Mary Byers.
面頁冊數:	148 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 4021.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
標題:	Gerontology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3283116
ISBN:	9780549260264

Improving life satisfaction of elders through oral history: The narrator's perspective.
Ligon, Mary Byers.

Improving life satisfaction of elders through oral history: The narrator's perspective. - 148 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 4021.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Virginia Commonwealth University, 2007.

Oral history is a method of preserving historical information through in-depth interviews. Because the process requires narrators to use remote recall while sharing their life experiences, it can also be considered a reminiscence-related activity. Before this study, the positive effects on narrators of providing an oral history were noted in the research literature but had not been evaluated through quantitative methods. Based on theoretical constructs of Erikson and Butler, it was hypothesized that participation in oral history interviews would improve the life satisfaction of narrators. Life satisfaction was operationalized and measured using the Life Satisfaction Index Version A (LSIA). The purposes of this study were to evaluate the influence of an oral history intervention on the life satisfaction of community-dwelling elders and to identify participant characteristics associated with change in life satisfaction scores.

ISBN: 9780549260264Subjects--Topical Terms:

168436
Gerontology.

Improving life satisfaction of elders through oral history: The narrator's perspective.
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520 $a Sixty community-dwelling, older adults who were free of cognitive impairment and mental illness were recruited from agencies serving the social and recreational needs of elders in Richmond, VA. Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a control group. LSIA scores were collected pretest, posttest, and again at retest, ten weeks after the intervention. Mean LSIA scores from the control and treatment groups were compared for differences at posttest and retest using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Regression analysis was used to identify participant characteristics associated with improved life satisfaction at posttest and retest.
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