Galit Nimrod
Galit Nimrod, Ph.D., is professor at the Department of Communication Studies and a research fellow at the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Journalism from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she was a Fulbright post-doctoral scholar in the Gerontology Center and the Department of Leisure Studies at the University of Georgia, US.
Aiming to contribute to the understanding of well-being in later life, Dr. Nimrod studies psychological and sociological aspects of leisure, media and technology use among older adults.
In 2008 Dr. Nimrod has founded The Leisure and Aging Research Group (LARG). She has also served as a board member of the World Leisure Organization in the years 2013-2018, and as an associate editor of the Journal of Leisure Research in the years 2013-2016. In 2015 she became one of the founding members of the China-International Leisure Research Association. In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences.
Address: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Communication Studies,
and The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Aiming to contribute to the understanding of well-being in later life, Dr. Nimrod studies psychological and sociological aspects of leisure, media and technology use among older adults.
In 2008 Dr. Nimrod has founded The Leisure and Aging Research Group (LARG). She has also served as a board member of the World Leisure Organization in the years 2013-2018, and as an associate editor of the Journal of Leisure Research in the years 2013-2016. In 2015 she became one of the founding members of the China-International Leisure Research Association. In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences.
Address: The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Department of Communication Studies,
and The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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according to how they recall the parental mediation they experienced in their childhood and call for considering such recalls in future research.
Results: Grandmothers experienced conflicts when interacting with grandchildren due to ginability to recognize online threats. Asking for help in managing different applications could be a source of family conflicts. Embarrassment and unease is reduced when grandmothers call grandchildren for help, rather than receive assistance from their adult children. Conflictual moments also emerged around the use of ICT
at family dinners or other gatherings, with grandmothers showing more tolerance in this context for grandchildren than for their adult children.
Conclusion: Family conflicts over technology use may differ when involving adult children versus grandchildren. Implications: The voices of grandmothers express the importance of permanent and affordable opportunities for people to receive assistance in technology use outside of family contexts.
Methods: Online surveys with ICT users aged 60 years and above were conducted in 2016 (N=537) and during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 (N=407), examining technostress level, internet use patterns and sociodemographic background. The 2020 survey also assessed a COVID-19-related Hostile World Scenario (HWS).
Results: The two samples had very similar background characteristics, but participants in 2020 were more experienced and their internet use was significantly more diverse and intense than that of their predecessors. The factors predicting technostress in both samples were poorer health, fewer years of use, fewer hours of use per typical week and smaller use repertoire. The technostress level in 2020 was significantly higher than that of 2016—a finding explained by the COVID-19-related HWS.
Conclusions: Individual antecedents hardly vary in the presence of significant contextual antecedents, but HWS may leave users with fewer resources to cope with the negative effects of technology use. Future research should explore additional contextual factors and interventions that may alleviate technostress among seniors.
Methods: An online survey with a random sample of 407 Internet users aged 60 years and over (Mean = 69.14).
Results: Participants reported a significant increase in 7 of 12 Internet-based functions following the pandemic onset. Stress levels were moderate-to-high and participants appeared more worried about others than about themselves. Significant positive associations were found between stress and increase in Internet use for interpersonal communication and online errands. Linear regression analysis revealed a significant negative association between stress and subjective wellbeing, but it was only increased Internet use for leisure that associated significantly with enhanced wellbeing.
Conclusion: The changes in Internet use clearly reflected coping efforts that were apparently ineffective in enhancing wellbeing. Paradoxically, the only online functions that could improve wellbeing, Internet use for leisure, are precisely those whose use hardly increased.
As a result, community dwelling older adults are homebound and need alternative exercise and social opportunities to maintain their health during this time. Leisure professionals can promote physical activity and social well-being among older adults by increasing home-based opportunities, including offering additional online leisure services, opportunities for volunteerism, and social interactions.
according to how they recall the parental mediation they experienced in their childhood and call for considering such recalls in future research.
Results: Grandmothers experienced conflicts when interacting with grandchildren due to ginability to recognize online threats. Asking for help in managing different applications could be a source of family conflicts. Embarrassment and unease is reduced when grandmothers call grandchildren for help, rather than receive assistance from their adult children. Conflictual moments also emerged around the use of ICT
at family dinners or other gatherings, with grandmothers showing more tolerance in this context for grandchildren than for their adult children.
Conclusion: Family conflicts over technology use may differ when involving adult children versus grandchildren. Implications: The voices of grandmothers express the importance of permanent and affordable opportunities for people to receive assistance in technology use outside of family contexts.
Methods: Online surveys with ICT users aged 60 years and above were conducted in 2016 (N=537) and during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 (N=407), examining technostress level, internet use patterns and sociodemographic background. The 2020 survey also assessed a COVID-19-related Hostile World Scenario (HWS).
Results: The two samples had very similar background characteristics, but participants in 2020 were more experienced and their internet use was significantly more diverse and intense than that of their predecessors. The factors predicting technostress in both samples were poorer health, fewer years of use, fewer hours of use per typical week and smaller use repertoire. The technostress level in 2020 was significantly higher than that of 2016—a finding explained by the COVID-19-related HWS.
Conclusions: Individual antecedents hardly vary in the presence of significant contextual antecedents, but HWS may leave users with fewer resources to cope with the negative effects of technology use. Future research should explore additional contextual factors and interventions that may alleviate technostress among seniors.
Methods: An online survey with a random sample of 407 Internet users aged 60 years and over (Mean = 69.14).
Results: Participants reported a significant increase in 7 of 12 Internet-based functions following the pandemic onset. Stress levels were moderate-to-high and participants appeared more worried about others than about themselves. Significant positive associations were found between stress and increase in Internet use for interpersonal communication and online errands. Linear regression analysis revealed a significant negative association between stress and subjective wellbeing, but it was only increased Internet use for leisure that associated significantly with enhanced wellbeing.
Conclusion: The changes in Internet use clearly reflected coping efforts that were apparently ineffective in enhancing wellbeing. Paradoxically, the only online functions that could improve wellbeing, Internet use for leisure, are precisely those whose use hardly increased.
As a result, community dwelling older adults are homebound and need alternative exercise and social opportunities to maintain their health during this time. Leisure professionals can promote physical activity and social well-being among older adults by increasing home-based opportunities, including offering additional online leisure services, opportunities for volunteerism, and social interactions.
Numerous studies conducted in the past decades determined that involvement in leisure activities has significant impact on elders’ physical, psychological, social and spiritual well-being (Grant & Kluge, 2012; Heintzman & Patriqiun, 2012; Mannell & Snelgrove, 2012). Thus, leisure activities may be used by individuals and communities as a means for coping with many of the challenges associated with aging. Stressing the unique characteristics of the aging population in Israel, this chapter aims to describe the special constraints that older Israelis face and discuss the effects of these constraints on how older Israelis participate in leisure.
1. Recognize how developmental and systems theories can be used to explain changes in leisure across the life course.
2. Understand how leisure behavior changes across the later lifespan and what socio-demographic factors influence older adults’ leisure involvement.
3. Discuss how the meaning of leisure may be influenced during later life.
4. Explain how common later life transitions, such as retirement and spousal loss, can affect older adults’ leisure.
5. Identify leisure as a resource in coping with the changes associated with aging.
• Focuses on hippies' present realities and aging experiences rather than telling the history of the counterculture.
• Provides a lively, thorough, and inspiring description of aging hippies' daily realities, beliefs, and wellbeing, written in an engaging and accessible way.
• Based on a multidisciplinary perspective, suggests quite a few theoretical developments and provokes thought and self-reflection.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The hippies
3. The Farm
4. Once a hippie, always a hippie
5. Still changing the world
6. Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll?
7. The aging of the New Agers
8. Lifelong community
9. Alternative end of life
10. Aging differently
Appendix
Endnotes
References
Index.
For more information: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/psychology/developmental-psychology/aging-aquarius-hippies-60s-their-60s-and-beyond?format=PB&utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Aging+of+Aquarius&utm_campaign=JWM_IOC_SB_PSYC_Nimrod_DEC22&WT.mc_id=JWM_IOC_SB_PSYC_Nimrod_DEC22
Reviews and endorsements:
“A beautiful book about a beautiful generation. A must-read for anyone interested in aging as a holistic experience incorporating past, present, and future.”
Liat Ayalon, Bar Ilan University, Israel
“Nimrod’s sensitive, respectful and nuanced ethnography is a reference point for future counterculture studies.”
Göran Bolin, Södertörn University, Sweden
“Offers everyone, including non-hippies, important messages for living the good life and aging well.”
Sherry L. Dupuis, University of Waterloo, Canada
“Highly recommended to academics and non-academics alike, this book brings a new and original lens to the changing contours of later life.”
Chris Gilleard, University College London, UK
“Should be read by anybody who strives for hope in the age of Mars.”
Haim Hazan, Tel Aviv University
“A vivid journey into the hippie counterculture, evoking important questions of American idealism, identity, and spirituality.”
Stephen Katz, Trent University, Canada
“Provides unique and authentic insights into the value of work, intergenerational collaboration, leisure, spirituality, and community.”
Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria
“It tells us how the hippies’ worldview has changed and how it has stayed the same.”
Tim Miller, University of Kansas, USA
For more reviews and endorsements: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/psychology/developmental-psychology/aging-aquarius-hippies-60s-their-60s-and-beyond?format=PB&utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Aging+of+Aquarius&utm_campaign=JWM_IOC_SB_PSYC_Nimrod_DEC22&WT.mc_id=JWM_IOC_SB_PSYC_Nimrod_DEC22