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Routinization and emotional well-being — an experience sampling investigation in an elderly French sample
Author(s)	Jean Bouisson, Joel Swendsen
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 5, September 2003
Pages	pp P280-P282
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Residents [care homes] ; Self care capacity ; Well being ; Sampling ; Methodology ; France.
Annotation	It has been proposed that routines may protect older people from the stress or dangers associated with new or unusual situations, and that therefore routinisation may represent an adaptive process for this population. The authors collected naturalistic repeated observations from 47 participants (mean age 80.89 years) from four different areas of France; 25 lived in private residences, 22 in retirement homes. Preferences for routinisation were significantly associated with the repetitions of both behaviours and environmental contexts. Routines were associated with decrease in positive affect in within-person analyses but had no association to anxious or depressed mood states. The findings are discussed in terms of the complexity of the routinisation concept and its relevance for understanding emotional well-being in older people. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040406219 A
Classmark	KX: CA: D:F:5HH: 3Y7: 3D: 765
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