Positive Aging, Work Retirement, and End of Life: Role of Gerotranscendence Theory and Nursing Implications

Lalani, Nasreen

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“…Understanding how older adults adapt to the aging process can be illustrated by aging theories (Tkatch et al, 2017). For nurses working in gerontological care, determining and providing the best nursing care in an individualized manner is a challenge, requiring a holistic view of helping older patients through the aging process (Lalani, 2017). The paradigmatic shift in worldview in old age is heavily influenced by personal experience (Hoogland, 2015), and individual subjective frames of reference represent a socially constructed viewpoint that reflects ways of thinking and comes about through interactions within society (Grosswiler, 2005).…”

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Exploring the Subjective Frame of References in the Development of Gerotranscendence in Korean Older Adults: Q Methodology

Lee

Kim

Ahn³

et al. 2020

J Transcult Nurs

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Introduction: This study aims to explore how older people structure the subjectivity that accompanies the development of gerotranscendence in late adulthood within a specific sociocultural context. Method: Q methodology, a common method for assessing subjectivity, was applied. Results: The four subjective frames of reference that accompany the development of gerotranscendence, represented by four corresponding Q-factors, were (a) generation awareness, (b) awareness of aging, (c) awareness of the big picture of life, and (d) awareness of temporality. Discussion: The subjective frames of reference that characterize the development of gerotranscendence in late adulthood are closely related to cultural and psychosocial environmental influences over the course of an individual’s life.

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Exploring the Subjective Frame of References in the Development of Gerotranscendence in Korean Older Adults: Q Methodology

Lee

Kim

Ahn³

et al. 2020

J Transcult Nurs

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Gerotranscendence and humor styles: the mediating role of generativity and wisdom

Brudek

Płudowska

Steuden

et al. 2021

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The goal of the present study was to investigate whether generativity and wisdom played a mediating role in the relationships between gerotranscendence and humor styles among people in late adulthood. The study included 399 participants aged 60–85 years. The following measures were used: Gerotranscendence Scale Type 2 (GST2), Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ), Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS), and the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS). The analyses revealed that generativity and wisdom, taken together, were mediators in the relationship between gerotranscendence and the four styles of humor in late adulthood. The results of the survey show that gerotranscendence is a factor that protects individuals against the use of aggressive humor, at the same time predisposing them to using humor that expresses self-acceptance and strengthens interpersonal relations. An interesting result was obtained for self-defeating humor. It was shown that gerotranscendence, by increasing generativity and wisdom, increases the tendency to poke fun at oneself and to talk about one’s own weaknesses or mistakes. This tendency, as suggested by the specific character of the relationships observed, does not have to be non-adaptive. Our results demonstrate that the processes related to the shaping of humor among people in late adulthood have a unique nature.

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Positive Aging, Work Retirement, and End of Life: Role of Gerotranscendence Theory and Nursing Implications

Cited by 2 publications

References 34 publications

Exploring the Subjective Frame of References in the Development of Gerotranscendence in Korean Older Adults: Q Methodology

Exploring the Subjective Frame of References in the Development of Gerotranscendence in Korean Older Adults: Q Methodology

Gerotranscendence and humor styles: the mediating role of generativity and wisdom

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