Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila

The purpose of this study is to describe the perception of the elderly towards the different aspects of their present friendships. This study made use of the psycho-social method, which involved the participation of 200 elderly-100 of which lived with their families while the remaining 100 lived in...

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Main Authors: Chua, Allan Stephen, Co, Hilda Sia, Espiritu, Marie Alexandra
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:etd_bachelors-101862021-08-06T04:08:05Z Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila Chua, Allan Stephen Co, Hilda Sia Espiritu, Marie Alexandra The purpose of this study is to describe the perception of the elderly towards the different aspects of their present friendships. This study made use of the psycho-social method, which involved the participation of 200 elderly-100 of which lived with their families while the remaining 100 lived in the Golden Acres institution. There were also an equal number of male and female represented in the study. These said categories are just incidental and they were just included for they influence the results' generalizability. The said respondents were interviewed and a checklist questionnaire was also employed in acquiring the needed information. In analyzing the data, the interviews were content analyzed while the checklist questionnaires made use of frequency counts and then converted into percentage. Finally, the top five frequency of the checklist questionnaire and analyzed interviews serves to characterize the elderly's perceptions of friendship. The findings, which appealed to a majority of the elderly, indicated that friendship is a form of love that bind individuals. Moreover, it was revealed that respect, acceptance, comfort, advise and enhancement of self-image were the functions of friendship for the elderly. Good manners, similar interests and views, good conversationalist and talented were among the qualities the elderly look in a person for them to become friends. Nonetheless, the qualities found to be constructive by most of the respondents in a friendship included supportiveness, sincerity, understanding, humility and caring. However, it was obtained that the predominating factors which threaten their friendship were lack of respect, disloyalty, dominating, egoistic and nosiness. 1993-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9541 Bachelor's Theses English Animo Repository Perception Friendship Aged
institution De La Salle University
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country Philippines
Philippines
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topic Perception
Friendship
Aged
spellingShingle Perception
Friendship
Aged
Chua, Allan Stephen
Co, Hilda Sia
Espiritu, Marie Alexandra
Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
description The purpose of this study is to describe the perception of the elderly towards the different aspects of their present friendships. This study made use of the psycho-social method, which involved the participation of 200 elderly-100 of which lived with their families while the remaining 100 lived in the Golden Acres institution. There were also an equal number of male and female represented in the study. These said categories are just incidental and they were just included for they influence the results' generalizability. The said respondents were interviewed and a checklist questionnaire was also employed in acquiring the needed information. In analyzing the data, the interviews were content analyzed while the checklist questionnaires made use of frequency counts and then converted into percentage. Finally, the top five frequency of the checklist questionnaire and analyzed interviews serves to characterize the elderly's perceptions of friendship. The findings, which appealed to a majority of the elderly, indicated that friendship is a form of love that bind individuals. Moreover, it was revealed that respect, acceptance, comfort, advise and enhancement of self-image were the functions of friendship for the elderly. Good manners, similar interests and views, good conversationalist and talented were among the qualities the elderly look in a person for them to become friends. Nonetheless, the qualities found to be constructive by most of the respondents in a friendship included supportiveness, sincerity, understanding, humility and caring. However, it was obtained that the predominating factors which threaten their friendship were lack of respect, disloyalty, dominating, egoistic and nosiness.
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author Chua, Allan Stephen
Co, Hilda Sia
Espiritu, Marie Alexandra
author_facet Chua, Allan Stephen
Co, Hilda Sia
Espiritu, Marie Alexandra
author_sort Chua, Allan Stephen
title Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
title_short Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
title_full Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
title_fullStr Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
title_full_unstemmed Perception of friendship among the elderly living in Metro Manila
title_sort perception of friendship among the elderly living in metro manila
publisher Animo Repository
publishDate 1993
url https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9541
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