Stoyanova Stanislava Yordanova, Giannouli Vaitsa, Gergov Teodor Krasimirov
Department of Psychology, South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Eur J Psychol. 2017 Mar 3;13(1):109-128. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1202. eCollection 2017 Mar.
Sentimentality and nostalgia are two similar psychological constructs, which play an important role in the emotional lives of elderly people who are usually focused on the past. There are two objectives of this study - making cross-cultural comparison of sentimentality and nostalgia among Bulgarian and Greek elderly people using a questionnaire, and establishing the psychometric properties of this questionnaire among Greek elderly people. Sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece were studied by means of Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People questionnaire (SNEP), created by Gergov and Stoyanova (2013). For the Greek version, one factor structure without sub-scales is proposed, while for the Bulgarian version of SNEP the factor structure had four sub-scales, besides the total score. Together with some similarities (medium level of nostalgia and sentimentality being widespread), the elderly people in Bulgaria and Greece differed cross-culturally in their sentimentality and nostalgia related to the past in direction of more increased sentimentality and nostalgia in the Bulgarian sample. Some gender and age differences revealed that the oldest male Bulgarians were the most sentimental. The psychometric properties of this questionnaire were examined for the first time in a Greek sample of elders and a trend was found for stability of sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people that could be studied further in longitudinal studies.
多愁善感和怀旧是两种相似的心理概念，它们在通常关注过去的老年人的情感生活中起着重要作用。本研究有两个目标——使用问卷对保加利亚和希腊老年人的多愁善感和怀旧进行跨文化比较，以及在希腊老年人中确定该问卷的心理测量特性。保加利亚和希腊老年人的多愁善感和怀旧是通过Gergov和Stoyanova（2013年）编制的《老年人的多愁善感和怀旧问卷》（SNEP）进行研究的。对于希腊语版本，提出了一个没有子量表的单因素结构，而对于保加利亚语版本的SNEP，除总分外，其因素结构有四个子量表。除了一些相似之处（多愁善感和怀旧的中等水平普遍存在）外，保加利亚和希腊的老年人在与过去相关的多愁善感和怀旧方面存在跨文化差异，保加利亚样本中的多愁善感和怀旧程度更高。一些性别和年龄差异表明，保加利亚最年长的男性多愁善感程度最高。该问卷的心理测量特性首次在希腊老年人样本中进行了检验，发现老年人的多愁善感和怀旧存在稳定性趋势，可在纵向研究中进一步研究。
