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tinuity in lives of the members of the same family, psihosocialni vidiki prilagajanja na staranje | psychosocial aspects of adjustment to aging
from different generations
Blaž Razvornik
DEOS, d.d., Center starejših Medvode, Zbiljska cesta 15, 1215 Medvode, Slovenia
Introduction: The aspects of an individual’s life are directly related to the as-
pects of another individual, especially in the family circle. The purpose of our
research was to inspect individual aspects of life and to confirm that the life of
one family member affects another member of the family from the youngest to
the oldest generation.
Methods: A qualitative method of research was used in the study – case study.
In the study we included six people, three women and three man. The data
were obtained with a semi-structured interview. The analysis of the interviews
was divided into five steps.
Results: The results of the interviews show a typical connection between the
lives of the father/mother and the son/daughter, while the connection with the
grandfather/grandmother and father in law/mother is slightly smaller. The in-
terviews exposed topics such as time use, success, good and bad people and
theory of continuity in the lives of interviewees, which is particularly exposed
by the oldest generation.
Discussion and conclusions: People are social beings that are interconnected
and need each other, we influence one another and we are similar. The re-
search of three generations has shown the influence of a member of one gen-
eration on the other, as well as the connections of members of one family and
similar thinking of the same generations. Among members of one family of dif-
ferent generations, there are more similarities than diversity, and events that
happen to one affect the life of another.
Keywords: connected lives, three generations, the theory of continuity,
aspects of life, positivism
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from different generations
Blaž Razvornik
DEOS, d.d., Center starejših Medvode, Zbiljska cesta 15, 1215 Medvode, Slovenia
Introduction: The aspects of an individual’s life are directly related to the as-
pects of another individual, especially in the family circle. The purpose of our
research was to inspect individual aspects of life and to confirm that the life of
one family member affects another member of the family from the youngest to
the oldest generation.
Methods: A qualitative method of research was used in the study – case study.
In the study we included six people, three women and three man. The data
were obtained with a semi-structured interview. The analysis of the interviews
was divided into five steps.
Results: The results of the interviews show a typical connection between the
lives of the father/mother and the son/daughter, while the connection with the
grandfather/grandmother and father in law/mother is slightly smaller. The in-
terviews exposed topics such as time use, success, good and bad people and
theory of continuity in the lives of interviewees, which is particularly exposed
by the oldest generation.
Discussion and conclusions: People are social beings that are interconnected
and need each other, we influence one another and we are similar. The re-
search of three generations has shown the influence of a member of one gen-
eration on the other, as well as the connections of members of one family and
similar thinking of the same generations. Among members of one family of dif-
ferent generations, there are more similarities than diversity, and events that
happen to one affect the life of another.
Keywords: connected lives, three generations, the theory of continuity,
aspects of life, positivism
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