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• Active, Creative Aging I. - Coping

  14-28

  Anna Ferwagner

  Győző Pék

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  518

  Background and aims: In our research, we examined how the last stage of their lives is experienced by older people who engage in creative activity (handicraft, fine arts, textile art) aimed at creating a lasting work at this stage of their life.
  Methods: In our study, we used questionnaires examining proactive coping, life satisfaction, geriatric depression, and the meaning of life.
  Results and discussion: The higher level of search for meaning measured by creators may be related to the complex nature of the search, which may involve the mental stress associated with life cycle change and the ability to cope with it and the possibility of development, so that creative activity can be interpreted as a kind of protective factor. In the group of creators, reflective coping (exploring and analyzing several solution options and the resources needed for the solution) showed the highest value, which may result from the creativity and divergent thinking of those engaged in creative activity.

• The role of aestethics in the „active ageing”: (A téma szubjektív vázlata példákkal)

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  B. Boga

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  200

  Gerontology includes all disciplines related to man from the point of view of how they touch the old people, in other words: all human sciences have their gerontological chapter. Maslow assembled the hierarchy of human needs among which he ranged the aesthetic needs as well. This paper at first deals with the topic of how the aesthetic need changes in the course of ageing concerning the own body, the environment and the artistic (visual and musical) experiences. The aesthetic stimulation has or can have outstanding role in realization of „active ageing” paradigm and promotion of quality of life, it can be used voluntarily for this purpose. The aesthetics can open way toward the spiritual sphere, it can be very important in old age.