Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ466493
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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The Autobiographical Group: A Tool for the Reconstruction of Past Life Experience with the Aged.
Botella, Luis; Feixas, Guillem
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, v36 n4 p303-19 1992-93
Used guided autobiography to foster reconstruction of past life experiences among 12 older adults in Barcelona, Spain. Found a significant and gradual change in the construing system of those participants in autobiographical group as compared to control group of 10 older adults. Distance of elements self-ideal/self and self-ideal/others significantly decreased among participants in comparison to controls. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Counseling Techniques, Foreign Countries, Group Experience, Older Adults
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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