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Meanings of ageing and old age: Discursive contexts, social attitudes and personal identities
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The Promise and Peril of Digital Research in Yiddish: An Interview with Gerben Zaagsma
No full textIt seemed fitting to break away from a conference bringing together American and European scholars and researchers working on digital humanities for an old-fashioned face-to-face conversation about Yiddish. During a conference on Digital Hermeneutics at the German Heritage Institute in Washington, DC, I sat down to talk with Gerben Zaagsma, who is an assistant professor at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at the University of Luxembourg. In addition to being the author of the book Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War (2017), Zaagsma is the curator of the invaluable online collection of links to all things Yiddish, yiddish-sources.com.
In this interview, he talks about his chance encounter with Yiddish that started him on the path to studying klezmer music and the Spanish Civil War. While researching a book on an event with global and long-lasting reverberations, he encountered the potency and the frustrations of digital research. Finally, Zaagsma looks to the future of digital studies and Yiddish
What is the problem? A Taxonomy of Life Problems and their Relation to Subjective Well-Being in Middle and Late Adulthood
Get PDFelderly, life problems, middle-age, subjective well-being,
Welbevinden: van bijzaak naar hoofdzaak?:Introductie van de positieve psychologie en deze bundel
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Emotional expression in oral history narratives: comparing results of automated verbal and nonverbal analyses
Get PDFAudiovisual collections of narratives about war-traumas are rich in descriptions of personal and emotional experiences which can be expressed through verbal and nonverbal means. We complement a commonly used verbal analysis with a nonverbal one to study emotional developments in narratives. Using automatic text, vocal, and facial expression analysis we found that verbal emotional expressions do not correspond much to nonverbal ones. This observation may have important implications for the way narratives traditionally are being studied. We aim to understand how different modes of narrative expression relate to each other, and to enrich digital audiovisual interview collections with emotion-oriented tags
How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection
No full textWurm S, Diehl M, Kornadt A, Westerhof GJ, Wahl H-W. How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection. Developmental Review. 2017;46:27-43
When I grow up: Examing projected gains, maintenance and losses in aging adults
Get PDFThere has not been much research on the future perspective of aging adults. We therefore used six open-ended sentence completion stems, derived from the SELE questionnaire (Dittmann-Kohli, 1995; Dittman-Kohli & Westerhof, 1999), to examine respondents’ projections of possible gains, maintenance, and losses regarding aging and the future. A gain was defined as an event or circumstance the participant characterized as an improvement, a loss defined as deterioration, and maintenance defined as a continuation of the status quo. Respondents were 133 adults (54 male) with ages ranging from 40 to 84 years of age (M = 60.2). With 133 respondents and 6 stems, 798 responses were coded for future perspective. Three-hundred thirty-three responses were coded as a gain (i.e., In the next few years... “I will spend more time on me”), 104 indicated maintenance (i.e., Later when I’m older... “life will be just as enjoyable”), 227 were coded as anticipated losses (I am afraid that I... “will not be there to see my grandchildren grow”), and 134 did not fit into these categories. Further coding separated projections into specific content areas. Examining gains, statements concerning increased enjoyment of life were most common (N = 97, 29.1%). Examining losses, statements of physical decline were most frequent (N = 59, 26.0%). Additionally, other psychological variables were assessed — identity processes, self-esteem, and aging experience. Systematic relations with these variables were found, e.g., self-esteem and projected gains (r = .185, p < .05). This research underscores the benefit of utilizing openended and traditional inventories in tandem
Zin in je verhaal
No full textMensen vertellen elkaar verhalen. Dat draagt bij aan hun zoektocht naar de zin van het leven. De manier waarop mensen dit doen, zegt iets over hun welbevinden en geestelijke gezondheid. Er komt steeds meer bewijs dat ‘narratieve interventies’ effectief zijn. Het ontwerpen van nieuwe narratieve interventies sluit goed aan bij ontwikkelingen in de zorg, waarbij de cliënt en patiënt centraal staan
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