Open AccessWhen leisure is a central value for elderly people: a reading from narrative research
Author(s) -
María Jesús Monteagudo,
Roberto San Salvador del Valle Doistua,
Fernando Villatoro,
Catherine Elsen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychology, society and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2171-2085
pISSN - 1989-709X
DOI - 10.25115/psye.v13i3.5069
Subject(s) - narrative , psychosocial , reading (process) , perspective (graphical) , experiential learning , psychology , narrative inquiry , value (mathematics) , life style , gerontology , sociology , medicine , political science , applied psychology , literature , visual arts , pedagogy , psychotherapist , art , machine learning , computer science , law
Through narrative research, this article analyses elderly people´s leisure in Spain, from the experiential paradigm and a ambination of sincronic and diachronic perspective, which seeks to know the evolution of leisure across lifespan and the impact of past leisure in the current leisure styles. The analysis of the particular case of a 71 years old woman, for whom leisure becomes a central element in her life after her widowhood, contributes to know the psychosocial factors and processes that make leisure a source of well-being and vital engagement among elderly people.