Living alone in old age: coping strategies with loneliness
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| التنسيق: | artículo original |
| الحالة: | Versión publicada |
| تاريخ النشر: | 2023 |
| الوصف: | The aim of this paper is to analyze the strategies for coping with loneliness among the elderly who live alone. The data come from a qualitative study with 44 elderlies in Uruguay, individual interviews and focus group and content analysis were carried out. Findings. The elderly used two types of strategies to cope with the absence of interpersonal relationships at home. One, focused on emotions based on doing activities outside the home, which allowed controlling the negative emotions due to the feeling of loneliness. In addition, the other, focused on the problem, through the search for new social relationships outside the home, particularly couples under the arrangement of "living alone together” and friendship relationships. The elderly use cognitive, emotional and relational resources to build a coping process located outside the home space when living alone. The coping strategies reported here make visible new relationship contexts during old age. |
| البلد: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| المؤسسة: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| اللغة: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/54613 |
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/gerontologia/article/view/54613 |
| كلمة مفتاحية: | coping loneliness living alone old age estrategias de afrontamiento soledad hogares unipersonales vejez |