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| The experience of loneliness of battered old women | | Author(s) | Tova Winterstein, Zvi Eisikovits |
| Journal title | Journal of Women & Aging, vol 17, no 4, 2005 |
| Pages | pp 3-20 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Elder abuse ; Loneliness ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Emotions ; Israel. |
| Annotation | This article is part of a larger study examining the life stories of battered Jewish older women (age 60-85) in northern Israel (Buchbinder & Winterstein, 2003; Winterstein, 2002). It is based on long, in-depth interviews with 21 ageing women who lived with violence for a significant portion of their lives. The present study focuses on loneliness, which appears to constitute the central theme of their existential experience. Content analysis of the interviews shows that loneliness is experienced on all ecological levels. It also permeates the social relationships of women and becomes the predominant motif of their social interactions. The combination of loneliness, violence, and old age creates suffering that colours everyday life and becomes not only the constant background against which life unfolds, but also the governing variable in their experience. Their cognitive maps, emotional world and overall sense of self, as well as their sense of existential continuity in the world are affected by loneliness. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060914201 A |
| Classmark | BD: QNT: DV: DB: DL: 7H6 |
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