Study Levy (1978): study US 1977
- Public
- 52-74 aged white male retirees, from two universities Mid-West U.S.A. 1977
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 70
- Non Response
- 36% (12% refusals, 24% not available)
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Focused interviews at home and content-analysis of tapes
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Disconnected Present
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Content-analysis of tapes of focused interviews by two independent raters. Scored on a seven-point scale ranging from a sense of nonintegrated temporal experience ("I live only for today" etc.) with no sense of past or future to a conveyed sense of temporal integration, with present experience reflecting a clear continuity with past life and future intentions.