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Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People: Psychometric Properties of a New Questionnaire

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Gergov, Teodor
Stoyanova, Stanislava

Abstract / Description

A new questionnaire measuring sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people was developed based on the scale Sentimentality from HEXACO Personality Inventory – Revised (Lee & Ashton, 2013), the scale Sentimentality from Psychological Inventory of Criminal-Thinking Styles (PICTS) (Walters, 2002; Walters & Geyer, 2005); the subscale Sentimentality from Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) (Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, 1993). A sample of 121 Bulgarian elderly people was studied. The results revealed the importance of the past for the elderly people. The questionnaire had good psychometric properties. Four factors were extracted - Past emotions continue in the present; Nostalgia of the Past; Sentimental compensation; and One’s past perceived by the others. Comparison of the average values on the factors divided into the number of the items in the factor indicated that nostalgia of the past was the most strongly expressed among the elderly people, followed by the experiences related to one’s past perceived by the other people, past emotions continuing in the present, and the attempts for sentimental compensation of some past bad deeds.

Keyword(s)

sentimentality nostalgia past elderly people

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Date of first publication

2013-10-25

Journal title

Psychological Thought

Volume

6

Issue

2

Page numbers

358–375

Publisher

PsychOpen GOLD

Publication status

publishedVersion

Review status

peerReviewed

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Citation

Gergov, T., & Stoyanova, S. (2013). Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People: Psychometric Properties of a New Questionnaire. Psychological Thought, 6(2), 358–375. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i2.90
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Gergov, Teodor
  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Stoyanova, Stanislava
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2018-11-28T10:01:55Z
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    2018-11-28T10:01:55Z
  • Date of first publication
    2013-10-25
  • Abstract / Description
    A new questionnaire measuring sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly people was developed based on the scale Sentimentality from HEXACO Personality Inventory – Revised (Lee & Ashton, 2013), the scale Sentimentality from Psychological Inventory of Criminal-Thinking Styles (PICTS) (Walters, 2002; Walters & Geyer, 2005); the subscale Sentimentality from Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) (Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, 1993). A sample of 121 Bulgarian elderly people was studied. The results revealed the importance of the past for the elderly people. The questionnaire had good psychometric properties. Four factors were extracted - Past emotions continue in the present; Nostalgia of the Past; Sentimental compensation; and One’s past perceived by the others. Comparison of the average values on the factors divided into the number of the items in the factor indicated that nostalgia of the past was the most strongly expressed among the elderly people, followed by the experiences related to one’s past perceived by the other people, past emotions continuing in the present, and the attempts for sentimental compensation of some past bad deeds.
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  • Publication status
    publishedVersion
  • Review status
    peerReviewed
  • Citation
    Gergov, T., & Stoyanova, S. (2013). Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People: Psychometric Properties of a New Questionnaire. Psychological Thought, 6(2), 358–375. https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i2.90
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  • ISSN
    2193-7281
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1572
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1938
  • Language of content
    eng
  • Publisher
    PsychOpen GOLD
  • Is version of
    https://doi.org/10.5964/psyct.v6i2.90
  • Keyword(s)
    sentimentality
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  • Keyword(s)
    nostalgia
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  • Keyword(s)
    past
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  • Keyword(s)
    elderly people
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Sentimentality and Nostalgia in Elderly People: Psychometric Properties of a New Questionnaire
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  • DRO type
    article
  • Issue
    2
  • Journal title
    Psychological Thought
  • Page numbers
    358–375
  • Volume
    6
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