Reminiscing to teach others and prepare for death is associated with meaning in life through generative behavior in elderlies from four cultures

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568" target="_blank" >10.1080/13607863.2018.1548568</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reminiscing to teach others and prepare for death is associated with meaning in life through generative behavior in elderlies from four cultures

Original language description

Objectives: Reminiscence is considered an important aspect of successful ageing. Prominent reminiscence functions in old age are to pass on important experiences (Teach/Inform) and to prepare for death (Death Preparation). These reminiscence functions were hypothesized to be associated with generative behavior which in turn was hypothesized to be associated with meaning in life. Thus, we tested an indirect effect of reminiscence functions on meaning in life mediated by generative behavior. Method: Elderly participants provided information on reminiscence functions, generative behavior, and meaning in life. Participants were recruited in Cameroon, China (Hong Kong), the Czech Republic, and Germany, to test the generalizability of findings. Results: The assumed indirect effect was identified: Reminiscence functions were associated with meaning in life via generative behavior. This pattern was found for all cultural samples. Conclusion: Albeit results have to be interpreted with caution as they are based on cross-sectional data, findings suggest that these reminiscence functions motivate generative behavior and thus indirectly affect meaning in life in elderlies from all four cultural contexts. In future studies, this effect needs to be replicated with a broader age range and a more fine-grained measure of generative behavior to account for potential differences in culturally appropriate generative outlets.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

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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

Name of the periodical

Aging & Mental Health

ISSN

1360-7863

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

811-819

UT code for WoS article

000530937200017

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85059327514