Why Am I Alive: A Chinese Elder's Life Narrative and Searching for Life Meanings

Yang Yang; Nianqi Ye; Tangsheng Wang

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Why Am I Alive: A Chinese Elder's Life Narrative and Searching for Life Meanings

Yang Yang, Nianqi Ye, Tangsheng Wang

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 19 May 2020 Accepted: 2 July 2020 Published: 22 July 2020

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This paper mainly adopts the method of participatory observation to conduct behavioral observation and in-depth interview on a 90-year old man in nearly one and a half years. Observation records and interviews the text analysis, according to the case for the old man has a distinct personality characteristics, she end up very value personal free will and give full play to the individual, for lover, husband, daughter and other important others keep a more distant relationship, these life experiences brought her positive feelings at the same time, also makes the meaning crisis - year period of life. The conclusion is that the theory of sense of control and the positive effect of aging do not help to solve the problem of the lack of life value of the elderly in China, and only by establishing the interpersonal relationship closely related to survival and the pursuit of cultural identity in the field of life can we get an answer that meets the needs of the parties concerned.

Published in	American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajap.20200904.14
Page(s)	108-116
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Participatory Observation, Alive, Relationships

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Yang Yang

Qingdao No. 9 High School, Qingdao, China
Nianqi Ye

Shanghai Shixi High School, Shanghai, China
Tangsheng Wang

School of Marxism, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

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Yang Yang; Nianqi Ye; Tangsheng Wang. Why Am I Alive: A Chinese Elder's Life Narrative and Searching for Life Meanings. Am. J. Appl. Psychol. 2020, 9(4), 108-116. doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20200904.14

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Yang Yang, Nianqi Ye, Tangsheng Wang. Why Am I Alive: A Chinese Elder's Life Narrative and Searching for Life Meanings. Am J Appl Psychol. 2020;9(4):108-116. doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20200904.14

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