Household disbandment in later life.
Household disbandment in later life.
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晚年家庭解散。
DOI：
10.1093/geronb/59.5.s265
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发表时间：
2004
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通讯作者：
Bowen,MaryElizabeth
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作者：
Ekerdt,DavidJ;Sergeant,JulieF;Dingel,Molly;Bowen,MaryElizabeth
目标。本研究描述了老年人在搬到更小的住所的过程中采取的减少财产数量的活动，这是一个具有实践、认知、情感和社会维度的过程。方法：对30个在前一年搬过家的家庭成员进行定性访谈。调查结果显示，人们之所以会积累和保留一些东西，有9个原因会给即将到来的搬家带来问题。解散的最初步骤包括决定主要家具和给家人和朋友的有意义的礼物，然后评估剩余的物品是保留、出售、进一步的礼物、捐赠还是丢弃。没有通过一种方式剥离的东西被重新分配到另一种策略中。人们乐于看到自己的物品被使用、被照顾和被珍视，从而履行了对自己的财产的责任。它是与对自我有意义的事物的相遇，但随着它的展开，它也为事物赋予了新的意义。
Objectives.This study described activities that older people undertake to reduce the volume of their possessions in the course of a residential move to smaller quarters, a process with practical, cognitive, emotional, and social dimensions.Methods.Qualitative interviews were conducted with members of 30 households who had moved in the prior year. The disbandment period, typically lasting about 2 months, was a particular focus of the interview.Results.The interviews suggested nine reasons why people had accumulated and kept things, which now became problematic for the impending move. The initial steps of disbandment entailed decisions about major furniture and meaningful gifts to family and friends, followed by evaluation of the remaining belongings for retention, sale, further gifts, donation, or discard. Things not divested by one means were reassigned to another strategy. People took pleasure in dispositions that saw their things used, cared for, and valued as they had done, thus fulfilling a responsibility to their belongings.Discussion.Disbandment is an acute episode of a more general, lifelong process of possession management. It is an encounter with things that are meaningful to the self, but as it unfolds, it also makes new meaning for things.