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ergenerational dialogue - a way to improve the contact psihosocialni vidiki prilagajanja na staranje | psychosocial aspects of adjustment to aging
between generations
Nataša Demšar Pečak
Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Kotnikova 28,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Good communication and understanding between different generations is one
of the most important issues of modern society. Intergenerational dialogue is a
way to improve the contact between different age groups, in order to achieve
understanding and solidarity between generations. Intergenerational transmis-
sion is defined as the behaviour or tendencies of one generation passing onto
the next generation. The term intergenerational dialog or relation describes a
wide range of patterns of interaction among individuals of different generations
of a family among those in older and those in younger generations. What is
transmitted may include beliefs, norms, values, attitudes, and behaviours spe-
cific to that family, or may reflect sociocultural, religious, and ethnically rele-
vant practices and beliefs of society. Behavioural patterns of interpersonal in-
teractions may also be inadequate or even harmful, such as domestic violence,
drug and alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the
importance of interventions, to show what an important factor they are to
achieve the awareness and information about the importance of a good fami-
ly relationship, their abandonment of old habits and adoption of the new ways
of behaviour. We have found out that interventions are an important factor
for changing behaviour of family members from which it is required to change
deeply rooted beliefs and patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from gen-
eration to generation.
Keywords: intergenerational dialogue, intergenerational transmission,
behaviour patterns, interventions, family relationships
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between generations
Nataša Demšar Pečak
Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Kotnikova 28,
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Good communication and understanding between different generations is one
of the most important issues of modern society. Intergenerational dialogue is a
way to improve the contact between different age groups, in order to achieve
understanding and solidarity between generations. Intergenerational transmis-
sion is defined as the behaviour or tendencies of one generation passing onto
the next generation. The term intergenerational dialog or relation describes a
wide range of patterns of interaction among individuals of different generations
of a family among those in older and those in younger generations. What is
transmitted may include beliefs, norms, values, attitudes, and behaviours spe-
cific to that family, or may reflect sociocultural, religious, and ethnically rele-
vant practices and beliefs of society. Behavioural patterns of interpersonal in-
teractions may also be inadequate or even harmful, such as domestic violence,
drug and alcohol abuse. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to the
importance of interventions, to show what an important factor they are to
achieve the awareness and information about the importance of a good fami-
ly relationship, their abandonment of old habits and adoption of the new ways
of behaviour. We have found out that interventions are an important factor
for changing behaviour of family members from which it is required to change
deeply rooted beliefs and patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from gen-
eration to generation.
Keywords: intergenerational dialogue, intergenerational transmission,
behaviour patterns, interventions, family relationships
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