Dialogical and integrated self in late adulthood: Examining two adaptive ways of growing old

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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0091415019831445" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0091415019831445</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091415019831445" target="_blank" >10.1177/0091415019831445</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dialogical and integrated self in late adulthood: Examining two adaptive ways of growing old
Original language description
We examined two contradictory views of Erikson’s concept of ego integrity: as an outcome of the tension between integrity and despair, or as a dialogical process of balancing positive and negative life experiences. One hundred sixty-seven Czech older adults participated in the study. Dialogically integrated, outcome-integrated, and outcome-despairing participants were selected based on the Ego Integrity Scale and based on methods mapping life-reviewing dialogue. The three subsamples were compared in their psychological adaptation. The results showed that the dialogically integrated participants scored similarly in well-being and meaningfulness of life as outcome-integrated participants and better than outcome-despairing participants. However, the dialogically integrated participants were also prone to experiencing negative emotions. As they were older than the other two subsamples and reported worse physical health, we concluded that the life-reviewing dialogue helps them maintain a sense of meaning in life and a certain level of well-being. Hence, the results support relevance of the dialogical-process view.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02634S" target="_blank" >GA17-02634S: The styles of ego integrity in the life stories of older adults: a narrative approach</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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