The Best Age? The Uses of Spare-Time and The Self-Perception of the Elderly

Authors

  • Ana Flávia Braun Vieira Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UEPG.
  • Miguel Archanjo de Freitas Junior Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UFPR.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/podium.v7i2.257

Keywords:

Spare-Time, Leisure, Self-perception, Elderly, Third age

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the relation between the self-perception of the elderly and the uses of spare-timeb, from the Elias and Dunning theoric perspective. Therefore, the thematic oral history was adopted as methodology to the sources production, which was performed with 06 elderly people living in the Lagoa Dourada residential condominium, that is located in the municipality of Ponta Grossa-PR. As a technique for data analysis was used the content analysis, that allowed to indicate the meaning nuclei emerged in the oral interviews. By estabilishing relations between the emerging categories and the spare-time activities developed by them was possible to understand that the elderly who have a positive evaluation of the aging process spend about 50% of their time in spare-time routines, with emphasis on domestic care and rest moments, dedicating the remaining free time to intermediary spare-time activities of self fulfilment and self expansion and leisure activities. The analyses allowed to consider that the perception that they would be experiencing the best age of their lives is related to the activities developed in spare-time, which contribute to the updating of their knowledge, resulting in resistance movements to the stigmatization of the elderly.

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Author Biographies

Ana Flávia Braun Vieira, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UEPG.

Doutoranda em Ciências Sociais Aplicadas pela Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UEPG, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, (Brasil).

Miguel Archanjo de Freitas Junior, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UFPR.

Doutor em História pela Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná, (Brasil). Professor do Programa Stricto Sensu de Ciências sociais Aplicadas da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa - UEPG.

Published

2018-09-03

How to Cite

Vieira, A. F. B., & Freitas Junior, M. A. de. (2018). The Best Age? The Uses of Spare-Time and The Self-Perception of the Elderly. PODIUM Sport, Leisure and Tourism Review, 7(2), 207–225. https://doi.org/10.5585/podium.v7i2.257