The Role of Sexual Activity from the Perspective of Older Adults : A Qualitative Study
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00114047" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00114047 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01617-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01617-6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01617-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10508-019-01617-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Role of Sexual Activity from the Perspective of Older Adults : A Qualitative Study
Original language description
Despite a growing amount of literature on aging and sexual activity, there are still a limited number of studies that capture older people’s understanding of sexuality in later life. This study explored the meanings that older people ascribe to sexual activity and how these meanings relate to the continuation, the decline, and the complete cessation of sexual activity. Thirty in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with Czechs aged 50–75 years (13 men) who were recruited through a preventive cognitive health program offered at a hospital. The analysis was carried out with a grounded theory approach and the principles of consensual qualitative research. The study identified three dominant understandings of sexual activity in later life that emerged as a reflection of the aging process. The first was sexual activity within a relationship that represented proof of being with someone and where sexual inactivity was linked to the threat of loneliness. The second concerned sexual pleasure and its continuity in later life, while its loss gave room for affliction and the emergence of ageist beliefs. The third linked sexual activity with the connotations of self-identifying as young versus being self-perceived as really old. The study findings suggest that the understanding of sexual activity in later life is ambivalent. Its continuity is viewed as an instrument for mitigating the markers of getting old, while the threat of its decline may activate older people’s desire for asexual aging and negative views on aging.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-11384S" target="_blank" >GA17-11384S: Sexuality and the internet in the second half of life</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archives of Sexual Behavior
ISSN
0004-0002
e-ISSN
1573-2800
Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
969-981
UT code for WoS article
000515848000002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079495120