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Failures in the life balance of educationally active seniors
Artur Fabiś Artur Fabiś
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5624-6232Katarzyna Sygulska
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1799-6495Abstract
The article presents the results of empirical research about the life balance of seniors. The aim of the study was to find the meanings that old people give their own life failures in the perspective of retrospective life review. The aim was also to identify the mechanisms that seniors used in their own life balance. An open questionnaire was used for data collection. a qualitative analysis of the written statements of seniors was used. People over 60 years of age (students of the University of the Third Age) participated in the research. Seniors pointed to the failures in life concerning: own person, family, education, work, health, and financial situation. The mechanisms used in retrospective life review consisted of denial, blaming themselves or other people.
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life balance, retrospektive life reviev, life failures, seniors, old ageMost read articles by the same author(s)
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