| Revista INFAD 2012 |
ISSN EDICIÓN EN PAPEL: 0214-9877 |
| Nº1, Vol. 3, pp. 403-410 | doi: en trámite |
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The psychosocial dimensions of aging: a research project with italian elders, caregivers and young people and also spanish elder
Manuela Mauceri / Orazio Licciardello / Graziella Di Marco . pp. 403-410
The quick increase of life expectations is a typical phenomenon of developed world. The aging has been considered simply waiting period of the death for long time. Thus, today more never, it becomes extremely important to reflect upon possibility increasing the quality of life among elders. In ecological-systemic framework, one question extremely important is how to change social repre-sentations on elders and make meaningful the years of the old age.
According to designed scenery, we are going to carry out a research, which is going to be artic-ulated in two studies: the first is going to carry out involving one group of elders and one group of young people; the second is going to carry out to make cross-national comparisons between Italy and Spain.
We are going to use a psychosocial questionnaire, which includes the following measures: a set of items regarding to model of resistance to change and the activities which an elder usually does during the day; free associations; Positive and Negative Affect Schedule; Temporal Satisfaction With Life Scale; WHO-QoL-Bref; Perceived Social Self-efficacy.
Results of our research will contribute to a better and more articulated knowledge regarding to elders and their lives.
Keywords: aging, change, social representations, quality of life.
