Froehlich J, Nelson D L
Am J Occup Ther. 1986 Jan;40(1):27-33. doi: 10.5014/ajot.40.1.27.
Life review is often incorporated into therapy with the elderly in the form of verbal or activity groups. This study compares the affective meanings of life review through activities with life review through discussion. Twenty-two women between 60 and 85 years of age participated in one of two activity groups or in one of two discussion groups. Individuals in the activity groups expressed a positive event or accomplishment of their past by drawing and making collages. Then they discussed their finished products. In the discussion groups, subjects took turns describing a positive life event to other group members. Afterward, all subjects rated how they felt about themselves during the group using Osgood's semantic differential scale. Analyses of variance for nested designs were completed on the scale's evaluation, power, and action factors of affective meaning. They revealed significant differences between the groups within the activity and discussion conditions. However, differences between the activity and discussion conditions were not significant. In terms of clinical practice, life review was perceived as good, powerful, and active by this sample, and practitioners are urged to consider the importance of group-to-group differences in responses to activities.
生活回顾通常以言语或活动小组的形式纳入对老年人的治疗中。本研究比较了通过活动进行生活回顾与通过讨论进行生活回顾的情感意义。22名年龄在60至85岁之间的女性参加了两个活动小组之一或两个讨论小组之一。活动小组的参与者通过绘画和制作拼贴画来表达她们过去的一个积极事件或成就。然后她们讨论自己完成的作品。在讨论小组中，参与者轮流向其他小组成员描述一个积极的生活事件。之后，所有参与者使用奥斯古德语义差异量表对她们在小组活动期间对自己的感受进行评分。对嵌套设计的方差分析是在量表情感意义的评价、力量和行动因素上完成的。分析结果显示，在活动和讨论条件下，各小组之间存在显著差异。然而，活动和讨论条件之间的差异并不显著。在临床实践方面，这个样本认为生活回顾是积极、有力且有效的，并且敦促从业者考虑在对活动的反应中不同小组之间差异的重要性。
