[The emotional component of the image of well-being in the perceptions of elderly and senile people.].

Authors

I V Vasileva, M V Chumakov

Published in

Advances in gerontology = Uspekhi gerontologii. Volume 39. Issue 2. Pages 199-206.

Abstract

Improving people's well-being is one of the most important goals of public policy, as well as one of the tasks of psychology as an applied branch of knowledge. To effectively implement these tasks, it is necessary to clearly understand what the well-being of people of different ages consists of. The study of the well-being of the elderly and senile people is especially relevant due to the entry of society into the phase of super-aging, also due to the fact that psychology goes beyond the ideas of aging as regression and decline. Analysis of the emotional component of the image of well-being in elderly and senile people allows us to identify the most subjectively significant components of well-being. Objective - to identify the features of the emotional component of the image of well-being in the perceptions of elderly and senile people. The study involved 264 elderly and senile people. The data were collected using the method of limited associations using the following instructions: provide 9 associations for the word «well-being» (3 words in the form of a verb, noun, adjective). The resulting associations were examined through the prism of the thesaurus of emotive vocabulary by L.G.Babenko. As a result, the most frequent associations were identified, from which only associates related to emotive vocabulary were subsequently selected. Comparison of older and younger people shows that the most frequent associations of emotive vocabulary are similar. Differences are found in less frequent associations. Semantic groups of associations are unique to elderly and senile people: successful, kindness, cheerful, live, vigorous, communicate. Emotive vocabulary in the thesaurus of elderly and senile people is less represented than in young people, which indicates a lower intensity of needs. The features of the emotional component of the image of well-being, manifested in the associations of elderly and senile people, are described. The emotional component of the image of elderly people is represented mainly by positive emotions. The emotions of the core zone of the image are happiness, joy, calm; the emotions of the middle zone are friendship, love, attraction; the emotions of the peripheral zone of the image are kindness and anxiety.

PMID:
42378469
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