ORDINARY REPRESENTATIONS OF LOVE AMONG ELDERLY WOMEN AND ELDERLY MEN
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35619/praprv.v1i15.181Keywords:
love, sympathy, friendship, ordinary representations everyday ideas, the method of free description, factor analysis, factor, category, constructAbstract
The article presents the results of researching ideas about love that exist in the minds of older people. It is known that people's ideas about love are formed on the basis of everyday life experience gained in the process of social interaction. In the scientific literature, descriptions of different types of love are presented: love of a mother for a child, love for God, erotic love, brotherly love, love-sympathy and friendship, love-attachment, love-duty, love for oneself, etc. Study of the structure and content of everyday life ideas about love made it possible to fix their specificity in women and men of advanced age. In the everyday consciousness of older women there are two types of love: ideal love, in which there is happiness, trust, the meaning of life, and love-friendship. Older men associate love with a sensual relationship between a man and a woman. They call love the engine of the world, a glorious, great, tender feeling, the experience of which can be painful and require self-denial. Among the variety of types of love described in the scientific literature only certain types of love are clearly differentiated in the ordinary consciousness of older people. Women idealize love and associate either with friendship or with faith in the Almighty, while men perceive love as a gender relationship.
