Articles liés à Driving Retirement: Exploring lived experiences within...

Driving Retirement: Exploring lived experiences within historical, cultural, and social contexts - Couverture souple

Pellerito Jr., Joseph

 
9783639148046: Driving Retirement: Exploring lived experiences within historical, cultural, and social contexts
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639148045 ISBN 13 : 9783639148046
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Contemporary research indicates that elderly women and men view driving retirement as a negative experience with numerous disabling consequences resulting in decreased quality of life. Scholarship on successful aging, however, shows that seniors generally define aging neutrally or positively. Researchers have relied upon quantitative research methods that lack the kinds of rich descriptions gleaned from qualitative inquiries. Reducing driving retirement to a finite list of negative consequences does not fully convey meanings and lived experiences. Driving retirement also has not been studied systematically against a sociocultural backdrop that could foster understanding within historical, cultural, and social contexts. Thus, qualitative research methods were employed in this study to explore participants? self-defined meanings of driving and driving retirement. Driving retirement resulted in three categories of subjective phenomena including negative, positive, and mixed consequences. The discoveries of positive and mixed effects provide new perspectives not previously reported in the literature.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Contemporary research indicates that elderly women and men view driving retirement as a negative experience with numerous disabling consequences resulting in decreased quality of life. Scholarship on successful aging, however, shows that seniors generally define aging neutrally or positively. Researchers have relied upon quantitative research methods that lack the kinds of rich descriptions gleaned from qualitative inquiries. Reducing driving retirement to a finite list of negative consequences does not fully convey meanings and lived experiences. Driving retirement also has not been studied systematically against a sociocultural backdrop that could foster understanding within historical, cultural, and social contexts. Thus, qualitative research methods were employed in this study to explore participants? self-defined meanings of driving and driving retirement. Driving retirement resulted in three categories of subjective phenomena including negative, positive, and mixed consequences. The discoveries of positive and mixed effects provide new perspectives not previously reported in the literature.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Joseph M. Pellerito, Jr. is an Associate Professor and Director of WSU's Driving Simulation Laboratory located in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. He also holds a Research Associate position at the Institute of Gerontology, also at WSU.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639148045
ISBN 13 
9783639148046
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible