تحولات مفهوم الذات عبر مسار الحياة في المجتمع الأردني : دراسة سوسيولوجية بين جيلية

الملخص EN

This study aimed to identify the transmission of self-concept in Jordanian society through childhood, youth, and adulthood.

It used the descriptive approach as the base in the social survey of the sample which consisted of (453) elderly men and women.

It was implemented from March to December (2019).

The results showed that the elderly persons related to their parents through childhood with deep emotional relationships that enabled them to trust themselves, and related to their friends with kind relations that taught them right and wrong.

They learned that work is sincerity and honesty, but the cruelty of childhood life made them hesitant to build continuous relationships with others.

The results also showed that the elderly through youth learned from their relationship with their parents the connotations of their culture and decision-making, and entering into spontaneous and simple relations with their colleagues that made them feel confident and reassured.

They learned commitment in the performance of work, but the difficulties of the youth's life made them hesitant before entering into building relationships with others.

In addition, the results showed that the elderly persons related to their parents through adulthood with their lukewarm relationships that made their relationships with others intermittent, and they became silent about their feelings for their friends, unlike what they used to do in their early years.

Because of this path their relations with their colleagues at work were permissive and selfish, and because of the difficulties of living in old age they did not feel safe wherever they lived.

The study recommended the necessity of joining the family, civil and governmental efforts to keep the elderly in their homes and the society where they grow old.