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Improving Life Satisfaction Of Elders Through Oral History: The Narrator's Perspective, Mary B. Ligon
Improving Life Satisfaction Of Elders Through Oral History: The Narrator's Perspective, Mary B. Ligon
Theses and Dissertations
Oral history is a method of preserving historical information through in-depth interviews. Because the process requires narrators to use remote recall while sharing their life experiences, it can also be considered a reminiscence-related activity. Before this study, the positive effects on narrators of providing an oral history were noted in the research literature but had not been evaluated through quantitative methods. Based on theoretical constructs of Erikson and Butler, it was hypothesized that participation in oral history interviews would improve the life satisfaction of narrators. Life satisfaction was operationalized and measured using the Life Satisfaction Index Version A (LSIA). The …