CHRONIC POVERTY AND THE SELF IN LATER LIFE

长期贫困与晚年生活中的自我

• 批准号: 2052440
• 负责人: Robert L. Rubinstein
• 金额: $ 21.54万
• 依托单位: MADLYN/LEONARD ABRAMSON CTR/JEWISH LIFE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-01 至 1998-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2052440
• 关键词: African American; audiotape; caucasian American; culture; divorce /separation; experience; female; human old age (65+); human subject; human very old age (85+); identity; interpersonal relations; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; self concept; socioeconomics; widowhood

The major specific aim of the proposed 42 month research project is to explore the relationship of chronic, lifelong poverty to notions of personal and cultural identity in later life. Thus the focus is on the personal meaning and experience of chronic poverty from the perspective of old age. While the incidence of poverty among the aged has declined in the last decades (although it has recently continued to rise), in reality, some 12% of elders were poor and 8% near poor in 1990; chronic poverty among a large segment of the aged has been an unremitting feature of life. Little specifically is known about the experience of chronic poverty in later life and in life course perspective and about the effects of this on self and identity. This is an anthropological study of personal meaning, this defined as each person's interpretation or version of her own life, abstracted from shared, cultural meanings and individual experience. Key questions to be addressed in the proposed research include the following: What is the experience of life long and current poverty: What is it like to have been poor all your life and now be old? How do poor elders compare themselves to other elders? How do notions of what the life course as a sociocultural construct (its stages and transitions) differ for elders who are chronically poor from those who are not? How do poor elders evaluate their lives retrospectively? What is the status of developmental notions including generativity, integrity and lifetime accomplishments among the chronically poor elders? We operationalize chronic poverty on the basis of both current income and a general lifetime history of poverty. Our sample will consist of 240 formerly married women (widowed, separated, divorced), age 70 and older, divided int the following study groups of 60 informants each: Poor African-and European-Americans and for comparison, Non-poor European- and African-Americans. We will use qualitative interviewing techniques; each subject will be interviewed in 3 weekly approximately 1-2 hour sessions on:Background, Life History; Financial Life History; Life Time and Current Achievements; The Self; The Ideal Life Course and the Future; and social Supports and the Meaning of Economic Assets.

拟议的42个月研究项目的主要具体目的是 探索慢性，终身贫困与观念的关系 晚年的个人和文化身份。 因此，重点是 从角度来看，慢性贫困的个人意义和经验 老年。 虽然老年人的贫困发生率下降了 在过去的几十年中（尽管最近继续上升） 现实，约有12％的长者在1990年贫穷，靠近贫困人口8％。慢性的 大部分老年人的贫困一直是一个不懈的特征 生活。 关于慢性的经历，鲜为人知 后来生活和生活课程的贫困和关于 这对自我和身份的影响。 这是对个人意义的人类学研究，这是定义的 每个人的解释或她自己的生活的版本，从 共同的文化含义和个人经验。 关键问题 在拟议的研究中解决包括以下内容：什么是 长期和当前贫困的生活经验：过去的感觉 你一生都糟糕，现在变老了吗？可怜的长者如何比较自己 到其他长者？如何看待生活课程的观念 社会文化建构（其阶段和过渡）在长者上有所不同 谁是那些没有的人长期贫穷？可怜的长者如何 追溯评估他们的生活？发展的状态是什么 包括生成性，完整性和终身成就在内的概念 在慢性贫穷的长者中？ 我们根据当前收入和 一般的贫困历史。 我们的样本将包括240 以前已婚的妇女（丧偶，分居，离婚），70岁以上， 分隔以下60个线人的研究组：差 非洲人和欧洲裔美国人，以及比较，欧洲和非贫困的欧洲和 非裔美国人。 我们将使用定性的访谈技术；每个 主题将在每周的3个每周大约1-2小时接受采访 在：背景，生活史；金融生活历史；终身和 当前的成就；自我；理想的生活课程和未来；和 社会支持和经济资产的含义。