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| Elderly individuals' reminiscences about the life span development of their family | | Author(s) | Mark Byrd |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 52, no 3, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 253-263 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Life span ; The Family ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | 128 New Zealand older people (mean age 73.2) were asked to compose "family autobiographies" describing past events representing the beginning of their family, their family when parents were middle-aged, and their family as it is today. Content analyses of participants' recollections showed that memories of the beginning of their families were focused on episodes that illustrated the initial occurrence of family themes and values. In contrast, their recollections of their families when they were middle-aged and their families today showed a tendency to attempt to identify continuing themes and trends from episodes of their families' lives. These findings were taken to indicate individuals' reminiscences of their family lives changes as the relative importance of the families' developmental tasks changes. This pattern of findings is discussed in terms of Duvall's 1988 model of family developmental tasks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010717206 A |
| Classmark | DB: BG6: SJ: 7YN |
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