Reminiscence, Life Review, and Ego Integrity in Nursing Home Residents

Taft, Lois B.; Nehrke, Milton F.

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“…This finding augments those of Webster (2003) in which the SAWS was positively correlated with a different measure of ego-integrity (i.e., Taft and Nehrke 1990). In terms of life attitudes, as predicted, wise persons endorse items reflecting a sense of coherence about self, others, and life in general; however, the predicted negative relationship between wisdom and Existential Vacuum was not statistically significant, although it was in the expected negative direction.…”

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Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood

Webster

2009

J Adult Dev

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The current project investigates wisdom and positive psychosocial characteristics in young adults in a series of three overlapping studies. Study 1 (N = 61) investigated wisdom and ego-integrity, values, and life attitudes. Results indicated that wisdom was positively correlated with ego-integrity and self/other-enhancing values, as well as a sense of personal coherence; wisdom was negatively correlated with hedonistic values. Study 2 (N = 62) investigated wisdom and attachment anxiety/ avoidance and life attitudes. Results replicated the findings for the life attitudes of Coherence and Existential Vacuum demonstrated in study 1 and extended these findings by showing predicted correlations among wisdom and four other life attitudes, as well as demonstrated negative correlations among wisdom and attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety. Study 3 (N = 62) showed that wisdom positively predicted attributional complexity, a variable found to reduce social judgement biases. Implications and future directions are discussed.

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Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood

Webster

2009

J Adult Dev

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“…Cross-sectional studies found that reminiscing about the past is related to ego integrity (Santor & Zuroff, 1994;Taft & Nehrke, 1990). The resolution of regret about the past has both a cross-sectional and longitudinal relation to ego integrity (Torges et al, 2008(Torges et al, , 2009.…”

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The Relation of Ego Integrity and Despair to Personality Traits and Mental Health

Westerhof

Bohlmeijer

McAdams

2015

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Objectives: Existing studies in the Eriksonian tradition found that ego integrity and despair are important indicators of life-span development. The present study relates ego integrity and despair to contemporary theories of personality and mental health. Method: A cross-sectional study of Dutch adults aged between 50 and 95 years (N = 218) was carried out, using the Northwestern Ego Integrity Scale, the subscales for neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience of the NEO-FFI, the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form, and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale-Short Form. Results: Extraversion and openness to experience have an indirect relation to ego integrity that is mediated by well-being. Neuroticism was related to despair and explained the relationship of depressive symptoms to despair. Chronological age did not moderate these findings. Discussion: Ego integrity appears to be related to fluctuating states of mental health, whereas despair is more an expression of a general trait-like disposition of neuroticism. Implications for further research are discussed.Keywords: Depression-Despair-Ego integrity-Erikson-Mental health-Personality-Well-being Ego integrity and despair form one of the fascinating conceptual pairs that Erik Erikson coined in his theory of human development across the life span. In contrast to identity versus role confusion (Kroger, 2007) or generativity versus stagnation (McAdams, 2009), it has not been the subject of intensive empirical research. Existing studies have mainly been carried out in the Eriksonian tradition, relating ego integrity and despair to the resolution of earlier psychosocial crises, to the acceptance of the past and the finitude of life. The present study addresses ego integrity and despair from recent theories of personality and mental health to bring it closer to contemporary psychology. We use a cross-sectional study of Dutch adults in their second half of life (50-95 years) to assess hypotheses derived from this broader framework. We are especially interested how ego integrity and despair are related to more stable dispositional traits as well as to mental health as a more momentary and fluctuating state.Erikson (1950, 1982) distinguished eight phases in his model of life-span development, each of which is characterized by a particular psychosocial issue. The last phase of life is characterized by the duality of ego integrity versus despair. Erikson described ego integrity as "the acceptance of one's one and only life cycle as something that had to be" (1950, p. 268) and later as "a sense of coherence and wholeness" (1982, p. 65). At the same time, late life brings reasons for experiencing despair, such as aspects of the past, present, and future that are difficult to integrate into a meaningful whole. Late life is therefore characterized by both integrity and despair as alternating states that need to be balanced.

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“…The program of this study improved participants " ego integrity because they could share their negative feelings on life with honesty, be aware of their biases, and ruminate and understand their life from different angles. The function of reminiscence is closely associated with ego integrity [24]. With regard to reminiscence, ego integrity is positively correlated with finding the meaning of life, understanding self, and reviewing one's past life.…”

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“…A movie is more effective an the emotional level than it is on an intellectual level. It is helpful in reducing suppression and other defense [24]. It is also effective for helping elderly individuals with verbal difficulties express their feelings and solve conflicts and problems.…”

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Effects of a Cinema Therapy-based Group Reminiscence Program on Depression and Ego Integrity of Nursing Home Elders

Kim

2014

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate effects of a cinema therapy-based group reminiscence program on depression and ego integrity of elderly people in a nursing home. Methods: A nonequivalent control group pretest posttest design was conducted. The participants were 45 elderly people from one nursing home, 23 in the experimental group, and 22 in the control group. They were recruited from a nursing home in G city. The cinema therapy program was provided for 90 minutes once a week for 10 sessions. Data were collected from June to August, 2013. Data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 20.0. Results: After the intervention, the group who participated in the showed increased self-integrity (t=4.29, p<.001) and decreased depression (t=5.01, p<.001) compared to the control group. Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that the group reminiscence program using the cinema as in this study is effective in increasing ego integrity and decreasing depression of elderly people in nursing homes.

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Reminiscence, Life Review, and Ego Integrity in Nursing Home Residents

Cited by 51 publications

References 18 publications

Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood

Wisdom and Positive Psychosocial Values in Young Adulthood

The Relation of Ego Integrity and Despair to Personality Traits and Mental Health

Effects of a Cinema Therapy-based Group Reminiscence Program on Depression and Ego Integrity of Nursing Home Elders

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