终身虐待在老年时可以原谅吗?
Tova Band-Winterstein1, Ksenya Shulyaev1,2, Zvi Eisikovits1,3
1The Minerva Centre on Intersectionality in Aging (MCIA), Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Journal of elder abuse & neglect
|February 21, 2024
概括
被虐待的老年女性幸存者探索宽恕作为生活反思的一部分. 这项研究揭示了原谅,被原谅和老化中的自我原谅的复杂维度.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 老龄化包括对生活的反思和检查过去的经历,包括虐待.
- 宽恕可以对老年人的福祉产生积极影响.
- 在衰老过程中理解宽恕对于终身虐待的幸存者来说至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 探索宽恕在虐待幸存者的老年女性中衰老的反思过程中的作用和意义.
- 在终身虐待和衰老的背景下,识别宽恕的多面性.
主要方法:
- 对78名虐待幸存者的老年女性进行深入的半结构面试的二次分析.
- 以演文献审查概念为指导的诱导性主题分析.
主要成果:
- 三个主要主题出现了:宽恕的维度 (受害者作为主体),被宽恕的经历 (失去的宽恕和希望之间),以及与老化自我有关的自我宽恕.
- 该研究发现了超出简单的宽恕/不宽恕二分法之外的复杂性.
- 在终身虐待和衰老的背景下,宽恕不是一个普遍直接或可取的过程.
结论:
- 宽恕是一个复杂的,多维的过程,老年妇女的虐待幸存者.
- 这些发现突出了自我宽恕,老化自我和过去虐待的经历之间的复杂关系.
- 需要进一步的研究,以了解宽恕在整个生命周期中的细微差别,特别是对于慢性虐待的幸存者.
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