Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life.
Safe passage of goods and self during residential relocation in later life.
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晚年搬迁时货物及自身的安全通行。
DOI：
10.1017/s0144686x11000705
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Lysack,Catherine
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作者：
Ekerdt,DavidJ;Luborsky,Mark;Lysack,Catherine
老年人的财产占有研究技术往往强调他们对物品的珍视，以及他们在将物品转移给新主人时使用特殊的处置来实现对物品的保护或“安全通行”。这种为占有物所作的努力也可能是为了使自我永存。为了在更广泛的背景下研究对事物和自我的照顾，我们研究了老年人在搬家和裁员期间的处置策略。我们分析了美国中西部75个家庭的人的叙述。人们确实讲述了关于珍惜财产安全通过的故事-他们主动放置东西，新主人的赞赏，以及试图投射赠送者的价值观或记忆。然而，这些关于特殊安置的描述只是点缀而不是主导了对这一举动的回忆。更常见的是，大量物品通过非特定的财产提供方式传递给可能自愿拿走它们的其他人。尽管如此，这使得人们能够对自己的财产找到了感激的主人表示满意。尽管我们的访谈并没有揭示出自我传递的广泛尝试，但整个房子的缩小可能会以另一种方式肯定自我：对事物的照顾是认真的。这种对现在的自我的肯定是有成就和有责任的，可以被看作是对狭窄的生活世界的积极适应。
Techniques of possession research among older people tend to accentuate their prizing of things and their use of special dispositions to achieve the protection or ‘safe passage’ of things as they transfer to a new owner. Such efforts on behalf of possessions may also be undertaken to perpetuate the self. To study the care of things and self in a wider context, we examined older people's repertoire of disposition strategies during episodes of household relocation and downsizing. We analysed the narratives of persons in 75 households in the Midwestern United States of America. People indeed told stories about the safe passage of cherished possessions – their initiative to place things, appreciation by new owners, and attempts to project the values or memory of the giver. Such accounts of special placements, however, dotted rather than dominated recollections of the move. More commonly, large quantities of items were passed via non-specific offers of possessions to others who may volunteer to take them. This allowed people to nonetheless express satisfaction that their possessions had found appreciative owners. Even though our interviews did not disclose extensive attempts at self-transmission, whole-house downsizing may affirm the self in another way: as conscientious about the care of things. Such affirmation of the present self as accomplished and responsible can be seen as a positive adaptation to the narrowing life world.