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Later-Life Crisis: Towards a Holistic Model.
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Journal of Adult Development . Mar2015, Vol. 22 Issue 1, p38-49. 12p. 1 Diagram, 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Crisis episodes have been most commonly associated with midlife, and correspondingly research on crisis after midlife is marked by its absence. Here, we report findings from a retrospective interview-based study of 21 adults about crises occurring between the ages of 60 and 69, in the first attempt to explore the holistic structure, process and experiential contents of later-life crisis. Basing our analysis on existing models of late-adult development, four key areas of later-life crisis were explored as follows: (1) life events and relationships, (2) self and identity, (3) motivation and goals and (4) cognition and affect. We were able to define a provisional common holistic process to later-life crisis episodes, shared by all participants, which included multiple loss-inducing stressful life events that provide a cumulative challenge to coping resources, a struggle with ego integrity, increased mortality awareness and the re-scaling of goals, activities and roles in ways that pertain to re-engagement, continuity or disengagement. Findings are discussed in relation to theories of adult development in later life, while strategies are proposed for future research on this understudied area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RETIREMENT & psychology
*BEREAVEMENT
*COGNITION
*MENTAL depression
*DIVORCE
*EGO (Psychology)
*GOAL (Psychology)
*HUMAN growth
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*INTERVIEWING
*LIFE change events
*LOSS (Psychology)
*RESEARCH methodology
*MOTIVATION (Psychology)
*MATHEMATICAL models of psychology
*PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
*QUALITATIVE research
*THEORY
*PSYCHOLOGICAL disengagement
*ATTITUDES toward aging
*PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10680667
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Adult Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101069066
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-014-9199-5