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Appropriation spatiale et territoriale de la chambre en maison de retraite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Liliane Rioux  and
Evelyne Fouquereau
Liliane Rioux
Affiliation:
Université François Rabelais
Evelyne Fouquereau
Affiliation:
Université François Rabelais
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Abstract

This exploratory survey aimed at determining the spatial and territorial factors used by elderly people when entering an old people's home and illustrating how these variables could be referred to two spatial and territorial appropriation processes. One hundred and two residents were asked to describe their rooms and to fill in a life satisfaction rating scale adapted by Blais, Vallerand, Pelletier and Brière (1989). The findings highlighted two distinct appropriation processes, that is to say a spatial appropriation-disappropriation process and a territorial disappropriation-reappropriation one. The respective predictors of these two processes are on the one hand the life satisfaction ratio, age and sex; and on the other hand the representation the elderly person has of his/her own autonomy as well as the evaluation of the gap between the elderly person's satisfaction with his/her past and present life.

Résumé

Cette recherche exploratoire se propose de cerner les modalités d'appropriation spatiale et territoriale mises en œuvre par la personne âgée entrant en maison de retraite et de montrer que ces modalités peuvent renvoyer respectivement à deux processus d'appropriation, spatiale et territoriale. 102 pensionnaires sont invités à décrire leur chambre et les objets qui la composent puis à remplir l'échelle de Satisfaction de Vie adaptée par Blais, Vallerand, Pelletier et Brière (1989). Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence l'existence de deux processus d'appropriation distincts: un processus d'appropriation-désappropriation spatiale et un processus de désappropriation-réappropriation territoriale. La satisfaction de vie, l'âge et le sexe d'une part, la représentation que la personne âgée a de son autonomie et l'évaluation de l'écart de satisfaction entre sa vie passée et actuelle d'autre part, constituent les prédicteurs respectifs de ces processus.

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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , Été/Summer 2000 , pp. 223 - 236
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 2000

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