Age and Awareness of Finitude in Developmental Gerontology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13627804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor W Marshall (McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 113-129 |
| Publication date | 1975-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/00yy-3th7-fub4-jhw9 |
| OpenAlex | W2007614050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 15 |
In developmental theory, awareness of finitude is held to initiate processes of disengagement, self-focusing, and life-review. Age has been assumed to be inversely related to awareness of finitude, and employed in testing these conceptions. Rather then being a simple inverse function of age, awareness of finitude is an estimate based on social-comparison processes. These data demonstrate the weaknesses inherent in any attempt to substitute age as a measure of awareness of finitude. Selected aspects of reminiscence are examined in relation to awareness of finitude in illustration of the fruitfulness of a direct use of awareness of finitude as a variable in relation to developmental aspects of aging
Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Disengagement theory · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Reminiscence · Aging and Gerontology Research · Computer Science · Family Support in Illness · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Gerontology
Reminiscence as the cure of souls in early old age
The danse macabre
The Three R's of Life Cycle Sibships
Participant Observation in a Multiple·methods Study of a Retirement Community
Reactions of the institutionalized elderly upon learning of the death of a peer
Death perspectives and temporal variables in terminally ill and healthy adults
Investigation of a typology of life and death among hospice workers
Death and the Construction of Reality
Thanatological Theory and My Dying Father
Investigation of a Typology of Life and Death as an Indicator of Quality of Life
Sibling Bereavement in Late Life
Perceptions of Time Remaining and Distance from Death
The Role of Gender in Middle-Age Children's Responses to Parent Death
Time since birth and time left to live
Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life
Preserving a Vital and Valued Self in the Face of Aids
Death and Personal History
Expected Life History
Older Consumers' Disposition of Special Possessions
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2014 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |